Tolia never complained, Gurley said, but held steady, making hard decisions managing two big layoffs, slashing the workforce to 28 from to keep the company alive. When Epinions merged with DealTime, 87 percent of the common stock holders voted for it. Had the merger not gone through, and the market not turned around, eBay may never have bought the company. For the founders to come back and sue years later, saying they were cheated, well, it does smack a bit disingenuous.
Gurley was a defendant in the lawsuit, and so should know. Ironically, Tolia has been sitting on the sidelines for the last few years, just as the user-generated industry has come in to its own.
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Learn More. The suit cites an e-mail message written by Tolia in January , one month before the former partners approved the merger, in which he writes about the Google deal.
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