Australian online storage startup Omnidrive has officially joined the Deadpool according to an entry on TechCrunch’s Crunchbase service made today. Entries such as these can only be made by TechCrunch employees, and something of this nature would have only been made with the approval of Michael Arrington, an Omnidrive investor (and therefore someone who would know). Notably CEO Nik Cubrilovic is also regularly posting to TechCrunch so the two would have been in contact. I’ve asked Michael for a comment or whether he was planning on writing about this, if he does post somewhere we’ll add the link.
As I wrote May 22 , Omnidrive presents a lesson in how to not deal with failure. Omnidrive was a company that showed a lot of promise with a charismatic leader who was at a time generally liked by all. As the company hit troubled times, bills were not paid and key stakeholders were shut out, creating a mass of negative sentiment.
As late as May 5 Cubrilovic would appear to have continued to blame everybody but himself, suggesting that various rumors about Omnidrive’s and his situation were out of his control, despite them feeding on the silence of Cubrilovic himself. Quotes such as “But it is a big stretch to go from that to some of the things that are being said now, which are vicious personal attacks on me. I never once denied that I had made mistakes…” are even more strange considering that until recently he hadn’t owned up to any either.
Sadly, Omnidrive would appear to have joined the deadpool. The only thing I’d note: please don’t think that all Australian startups are run this way: usually Australians will give you too much information as opposed to holding it back.
Update: the deadpool notice has been removed. Strange indeed.
