I was trying to keep this out of the forums, but it seems to have spoiled over into the forums, so it deserves some explanation.
The first seven minutes of that YouTube video is mostly false, misleading, and defamatory. There is no “new company” or “two corporate transitions.” Long story short, MakerMade’s former CEO could not pay their debts to me as their supplier - so I ended up with quite a bit of MakerMade assets - including the inventory. One of my related companies is a member of Maker Made LLC. The three founding members (the two stick men in the video + me) recently voted to release some assets, trademarks, website etc - in exchange for a partial debt reduction.
The products on Amazon were all put in place by the previous management and have been on Amazon since July 2019 under the leadership of the above-mentioned CEO. All that content in the Amazon listing was done at that CEO’s direction - including going against whatever deal he made with Bar back in 2018/2019. I have not touched that Amazon listing - so the former CEO is 100% responsible for the images and content within Amazon.
When some (not all, yet) assets were transferred to me, it was outsourced to a marketing agency that runs those Amazon listings, and the content that was on Amazon, I was diligently working with Bar on how we could have changed the language and asked him in two separate emails to furnish some of the prior correspondence he had with the other two partners. Bar did not reply to those emails. Instead, he posted that video - making this whole thing very public. I’ve asked for it to be removed.
Additionally, the former MakerMade CEO stole much of MakerMade’s intellectual property for a project that Sourcery has been developing alongside MakerMade since early 2019. He was terminated as the CEO since he was double-dealing and actively working against MakerMade and me - while pursuing in the background his agenda with other MakerMade contractors and employees. Yes, some employees and contractors even have NDA’s and Confidentiality Agreements. So now there are intellectual property and trade secret theft claims that MakerMade is pursuing. It’s not something I’m thrilled about, but it is what it is. You cannot control the evil and greed of some of these people. That’s their nature.
We have lawyers involved in all the litigation and with corporate transactions, including the theft of corporate intellectual property, trademarks, asset transfers, debt reduction, etc… much of this is over my head, so I let Bar know before he posted that YouTube video that I was going to have my attorney (not the MakerMade attorney) review. When I requested some of those email exchanges and other information - I was ignored for whatever reason. I would still very much like to work through these issues. Bar knows how to get in touch with me.
Thanks,
–t.j. weber
tj@makermade.com (also tjw@sourcery.com as the supplier)
(As a side note, when the MakerMade assets are transferred, the new company will be makerhub LLC - but for now, except for the inventory - Maker Made LLC is still operating - and will continue to operate as an IP holding company while litigation is pursued against the former CEO & employees.)