Just a very small piece of DD here....Marriott's VP of IT Strategy, Neil Schubert (spelling?) was "friends" with Shiva on facebook for a while (probably over a year,) at least as recently still as this summer. They are no longer facebook "friends"... I thought I would share, for what it's worth.
For very well over a year now I have pretty much felt like this was a lottery ticket's chance at best.... I've said the whole time that there was a time I thought this was the golden ticket. Given everything that I've seen now since i've been here, like 2 or 3 years (seems like longer,) but well before a Philly install was even announced.... I don't think it's even lottery ticket odds now that this is legit... maybe the odds of the mega-millions, what's that like 1 in 147 million or something? In my opinion, the only hope the bag-holders here have now is getting out in a pump.
The truly impressive, yet sad part about this is Shiva's ability to string so many people along, from current and former employees and partners, to shareholders.... it's uncanny, to say the least. I would bet that there isn't even an ounce of remorse on his part. I've seen a lot of people on here lose a lot of money, some of them unfortunately didn't even really have the money to lose. That is disappointing to see, all-the-while Shiva gets mad about people calling him out supposedly. I've won some and lost some, clearly here I lost some. It's all a part of the game, and Shiva has gone through this rinse and repeat process many times before. I just hope there are enough people soured by this to keep him from doing it again. He is truly talented at it, I will give him that.
All IMHO, GLTA