Thanks for the response. I have made it abundantly clear that I have not taken sides. My intention in mentioning your Silicon Valley activities was to connect the dots and provide the backstory narrative. All of this information is publicly available courtesy of your public Twitter feed.

It’s pretty obvious that you have done little research into the Omnidrive situation other than talking to Nik. Not that I have much energy or enthusiasm to discuss it much more anyway.

I assumed you are a friend of Nik’s and this is aimed to discredit me, not a very good attempt, but an attempt never the less, so be it.

I love your suggestions that we flew into San Fran to get in on the in croud. Having founded our first internet start-up over 12 years ago we have always watched the valley and contemplated moving there at some stage. The opportunity came in early 2007 as we figured our child at the time was 2 and we were starting to get more mobile due to this fact.

We first of all based ourselves in Menlo Park for a few months, and then moved out of the temporary accomodation to Atherton as originally planned. We figured that Atherton was the nicest suburb in the valley and most relaxed, it also happened to be where our close friends from Sydney had settled themselves, not that Nik would be aware of this. Yes it is true that TechCrunch is also based in Atherton, and this is where Nik was staying.

While we were there we dipped our toe into the techcrunch seen and have to admit it didn’t suit our style. We also purchased a couple cars and yes one was a Hummer. Lots of fun, cheap in the US, but certainly not very environmentally friendly. Should I mention what the other car was so this can also be judged? Also what about the cars we have now had to buy upon settling back in Perth?

Now, why did we quickly pick up and head back to Perth? Surely that has to be due to some dodgy reason? The fact of the matter is that we left san fran for perth primarily due to due the impending birth of our second child, and the fact that we concluded perth was far more family friendly and family focused.

By the way, if you are interested, the Visa was also eventually approved.

Not sure what this all has to do with a CEO being transparent to his investors, but anywho… I am going back to enjoy my weekend…

If you want to buy the Hummer, drop me a line. Otherwise don’t bother.

Regards
Clay

I don’t know Nik, Clay, Loic or Mike other than as namebadges at the same welcome desk, but the best outcome of an end-game scenario is to hurt the other guy as much as you’ve been hurt. Nobody walks away reputation intact, even those who may deserve to.