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Scout CEO Fired - Entire Tech/Platform Team Quits
Posted on 7/12/16 at 10:06 am
Posted on 7/12/16 at 10:06 am
https://awfulannouncing.com/2016/jim-heckman-out-at-scout-product-team-quits-en-masse-blames-russian-investors.html
Do any SEC teams still have an "active" Scout recruiting site? I know gamecockanthem.com has been dead for years. This news doesn't look good for their whole business. Right now, if there's a problem with their site/platform there's nobody there to fix it.
Looks like this stemmed from unpaid wages, expense report issues, general financial instability.
Do any SEC teams still have an "active" Scout recruiting site? I know gamecockanthem.com has been dead for years. This news doesn't look good for their whole business. Right now, if there's a problem with their site/platform there's nobody there to fix it.
Looks like this stemmed from unpaid wages, expense report issues, general financial instability.
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There appear to be some bizarre things going on with Scout Media Inc. and its network of sports websites (particularly recruiting-focused ones, but they’ve expanded into other areas as well). Awful Announcing has obtained a letter the Scout board sent to Scout publishers Sunday night, saying that they’d terminated the employment of chairman Jim Heckman for cause and alleging that he had “advanced his own personal interests at the expense of the company’s” and “abused his access to and control of company funds.
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This is hotly disputed, though. Heckman followed it with this mass-emailed response to publishers:
Everyone: This is 100% untrue, pure fraud. You will receive a detailed account, including documents about this horrible event, this morning. The headline is this: every co-founder and the entire product and engineering team resigned in protest last night. You’ll soon learn why. Please don’t forward or leak anything from the letter you received until you read and understand the real story. I’ll be available to all of you, all day, and look forward to connecting with my long-time partners and friends.
Thank you for your support.
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The entire product and engineering team does indeed appear to have resigned. Here’s the first page of a mass-emailed letter Awful Announcing received from them, blaming Russian investors, saying the accusations against Heckman are false and that he was trying to negotiate on their behalf with the board over late paychecks and unrealized equity, and that the board then fired Heckman and changed the locks on the Seattle engineering office:
Posted on 7/12/16 at 10:13 am to CockInYourEar
Scout probably has the best UF recruiting writer with actual sources within the program.
Posted on 7/12/16 at 10:28 am to CockInYourEar
Prob bc
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Posted on 7/12/16 at 10:31 am to CockInYourEar
TIL: some people still used scout
Posted on 7/12/16 at 11:11 am to CockInYourEar
The Arkansas Scout site broke away a couple of weeks ago. I imagine this had something to do with it.
Posted on 7/12/16 at 5:35 pm to CockInYourEar
Russians are pouring in money into investments all over the world. A lot of them are purely intended as a means of money laundering.
Posted on 7/13/16 at 12:16 pm to CockInYourEar
I don't really follow scout but this is crazy. I went to HS with Scott Kennedy who is their director of scouting, I imagine he will be sending out a few resumes.
Posted on 7/14/16 at 7:58 pm to CockInYourEar
I was a Scout member until they totally screwed up their web redesign. I hated it and finally cancelled. Now with 247...
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