Unfortunately, successfully convinced some people to continue supporting him and to completely ignore the reality of it. That includes a few smart people who used to support my work. He's really good at manipulating people in person, even though it should be easy to see through.
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I have the impression that neurotypical people are much worse at seeing through the superficial charm of psychopaths / narcissists. I don't really get how people fall for it so easily. It's the only reason Copperhead is still able to chug along and keep causing confusion / harm.
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I don't necessarily believe that. There's one in the white house who's managed to fool people his entire life.
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I just have the impression people on the autism spectrum, etc. are less easily fooled by narcissists/psychopaths because a lot of the way they charm people doesn't really work when you're more consciously / explicitly interpreting social cues. Just my feeling on it, not science.
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The way he manipulates people can come across as super awkward and cheesy via text, but many people really do completely fall for it in person. The fact that he can't stop doing it prevented us from ever working productively as a team, and I couldn't ever tolerate it for long.
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The reason that I ended up in that situation is because the company was founded by 3 people, not 2, and I nearly always interacted with the 3rd co-founder who ended up leaving, partly because he didn't get along with James either and also due to personal issues in his life.
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By that point, I already felt trapped, because there was a software project that's very important to me and it needed to continue being supported. Ended up just digging the hole deeper and deeper as time went on and then it became either James or myself leaving, and he won that.
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Early on, he tricked me into not being director, and that's how he was able to take over, because as a 50% shareholder I can't remove him as director and he abused those powers to do whatever he wanted including lying to the company's lawyer and turning them against me. *shrug*
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I could pursue it legally, but I'd need to spend a lot more legal fees than I already have just to deal with their ongoing nonsense which doesn't involve any actual legal case. There's nothing to get out of it other than trying to destroy the remnant of the company anyway.
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Better to cut ties completely and move on than wasting energy on a fight that's ultimately pointless.
If you're able to that is
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That's essentially done at this point, but I intend to hold onto my 50% ownership of the company largely as self-defense. I'm letting the many other people he has screwed over deal with him. As you can see, he's still around causing problems / turning people against me though.