Property management software company Entrata cuts ties with its co-founder and former CEO after he sent an anti-Semitic email to Utah tech and political leaders
crazy:” https://www.fox13now.com/... @fox13 #utpol #Utah https://twitter.com/... @rpsagainsttrump : It's 2022 America and antisemitism is still with us. Disgusting. The founder and chair of Entrata, a Silicon Slopes tech firm, has resigned after sending an email claiming the COVID-19 vaccine is part of a plot by “the Jews” to exterminate people. https://www.fox13now.com/... @rreedsing : The guy from Entrata, Dave Bateman, deleted his Twitter. Elise Scott / @elisenicscott : yes the email is messy, but I promise you his posts on instagram have been much, much worse #utpol https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/... Jonathan Greenblatt / @jgreenblattadl : Shameful for Entrata founder Dave Bateman to share wildly #antisemitic email with Utah political & business leaders, promoting dangerous conspiracy theories about Jews and COVID-19. Entrata's statement is a start but more needs to be said and done. https://www.sltrib.com/... Geoff Schwartz / @geoffschwartz : I'm disappointed I never get invited to the meetings where Jews plan these plots. Where is my invite? https://twitter.com/... Jennifer Taub / @jentaub : Oy, vey. Space lasers. Pope infiltration. What else are my people up to these days? https://twitter.com/...
KSTUBen Winslow
Context & Ripple Effects
Entrata's board severed ties with co-founder Dave Bateman after his email to Utah tech and political leaders claiming the COVID-19 vaccine was part of an extermination plot by "the Jews" — a break that came fast enough that his Twitter account was deleted before the day was out, with local reporters noting his Instagram history was worse than the email itself.
The exit fits a recent run of tech companies cutting leadership over extremist or hateful conduct rather than business performance: the Banjo CEO's resignation in 2020 followed reporting on a neo-Nazi past and a synagogue drive-by shooting, and Amr Awadallah left Google Cloud last year after staff complaints about a manifesto addressing his own antisemitism. For Silicon Slopes, which has marketed itself as a tight-knit founder community, the incident lands on the same fault line.
First-order effects
Bateman is out of the company he co-founded and once ran as CEO, leaving Entrata's remaining leadership to manage customer and employee fallout at a property-management software firm whose brand is now tied to the story.
Second-order effects
Utah's tech and political establishment — the email's direct recipients — faces pressure to respond publicly, and peer Silicon Slopes companies will likely tighten founder-communications norms to avoid being next into the cycle.
Third-order effects
If the Banjo, Awadallah, and Entrata cases mark the pattern, boards are converging on a standard where a founder's personal speech — especially about Jews or other protected groups — is treated as an enterprise risk justifying immediate separation, regardless of operating performance.
The trend: Tech boards are shortening the distance between a leader's public extremist statements and their removal, making founder conduct a standing governance risk alongside financial and compliance failures.
Entrata's board of directors today asked Dave Bateman to resign from the company's board of directors, including his position as chairman. Dave agreed and is no longer a member of the Entrata board, effective immediately.
Entrata CEO Dave Bateman sent an unhinged email to Utah business and political leaders on Tuesday, blaming “the Jews” for a conspiracy to depopulate the world through the COVID-19 vaccine #utpol https://www.sltrib.com/...
It's unclear why this didn't happen long ago when the larger community realized he was highly problematic. Utah's tech scene is so much better, kinder, and more accepting than this, and I am so proud to be a part of it. ❤️🐝 https://twitter.com/...
Dave's antisemitic message was repulsive and dangerous. The action taken by @EntrataSoftware leadership needs to matched by Utah business leaders, @siliconslopes, and @SpencerJCox that such behavior will be met with more than just words of condemnation. https://twitter.com/...
“Disturbed” & “disappointed”? The chairman of @EntrataSoftware said Jews are using COVID vaccines to euthanize “Americans” (Jews arent Americans?) & replaced the Pope with a Jew for the conspiracy. This is Nazi era stuff, not a disappointing stumble of speech.He's still chairman.…
I'm glad Entrata acted swiftly and condemned the antisemitism with full force. But where's the condemnation of the dangerous vaccine misinformation Bateman pushed as well? That part bears an explicit mention. https://twitter.com/...
The founder of a Utah tech firm has resigned after sending an email to other CEOs and political leaders with an anti-semitic conspiracy theory. Utah's governor called it “bats— crazy:” https://www.fox13now.com/... @fox13 #utpol #Utah https://twitter.com/...
It's 2022 America and antisemitism is still with us. Disgusting. The founder and chair of Entrata, a Silicon Slopes tech firm, has resigned after sending an email claiming the COVID-19 vaccine is part of a plot by “the Jews” to exterminate people. https://www.fox13now.com/...
Shameful for Entrata founder Dave Bateman to share wildly #antisemitic email with Utah political & business leaders, promoting dangerous conspiracy theories about Jews and COVID-19. Entrata's statement is a start but more needs to be said and done. https://www.sltrib.com/...
Dave Bateman has been the worst representative of Utah tech for years. We all know this. It's time for him to step down from Entrata and enjoy his tax haven in Puerto Rico and not embarrass us. https://twitter.com/...
Entrata founder Dave Bateman confirmed to me he sent the email (which was sent to me by numerous sources). He defended sending it in text messages to me, but said it was his personal opinion: https://www.fox13now.com/... @fox13 #utpol #Utah