[chptung]

Source? Because if true this is pretty baller move but also a big f.u to VCs

[tyrfing]

I think they are the source. Whatever happened, it was interesting, and seems to have been effectively buried. There are only a few interesting breadcrumbs, like this patent's assignment history: https://patents.google.com/patent/US9075812B1/en

Note the re-assignments in mid-2018.