After social media spat, written apology demanded by Ashneer Grover from BharatPe CEO Suhail Sameer
- ByStartupStory | April 8, 2022
On pending claims settlement of retrenched employees at BharatPe, founder and former Managing Director Ashneer Grover has written to the company board demanding that the CEO be served as a show cause notice and be put on leave of absence immediately for damaging the brand of the company, after a public spat on social media site LinkedIn with CEO Suhail Sameer.
For “…condoning the life threat to me (Ashneer Grover) by Bhavik koladiya from his own house and all the planned media leaks during my resignation…” chairman of the board, Rajnish Kumar should resign immediately, said Ashneer, further in the letter.
Apart from BharatPe co-founder Shashvat Nakrani, board chairman Rajnish Kumar, and former Union Bank chairman Kewal Handa, who serves as the independent director on the board, the letter was addressed to the board members at BharatPe representing venture capital firms including Sequoia Capital, Insight Partners, Coatue Management, Beenext and Ribbit Capital.
From Suhail Sameer addressed to Ashneer, his sister Aashima Grover and the board for defamatory comments, in the absence of which Ashneer and his sister reserve the rights to seek damages and pursue charges of criminal defamation against Suhail Sameer, Ashneer has demanded a written apology in his letter.
On April 6, 2022 it all started with a LinkedIn post by a former BharatPe employee Karan Sarki alleging that the company had not paid his salary from March 2022 and that all the administrative staff had not been paid their dues and had been laid-off by the company. To the post tagging head of financial control at BharatPe, Hersimran Kaur and CEO Suhail Sameer, responded Ashneer.
On April 8, Suhail Sameer apologised stating that his comment was aimed at a certain comment and not the post by the employee. In the letter, under influence of alcohol during the company offsite at Goa, Ashneer has alleged that the comments were made by Suhail, though it states the date of the event as March 7.
Ashneer Grover took to social media earlier this month, to say that BharatPe had reported the first quarter of ‘degrowth’ and maximum cash burn.
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