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Ceo Rug Pulled The Entire Organization - Is There Anything We Can Do?

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I'm quite speechless and don't really know how to word it all.

I've been working at this startup for about 2 years now. There are 110 people here. Each and every single one of these 110 people have been working while being given nothing but equity and promise of a future crypto token.

It's worth noting we are not a "meme coin" as there is a legitimate, real, software product that has nothing to do with the token. There is a token, that can be used to purchase services in the product (or you can use fiat), but we are a software company that simply designed a security suite of products.

Well, about 2 weeks ago, the product and associated token launched.

The product was quite a hit. The company had immediately brought in 7 figures of fiat revenue, and the tokens are worth 8 figures cumulatively.

Well, since the launch, the CEO and Head Engineer have gone silent. There hasn't been word.

However today, it was revealed that the CEO and Head Engineer own 99% of the tokens, and the remaining 1% is divvied up to the other 108 employees.

Furthermore, the cap table was shown, which gives the CEO and Head Engineer 98% of all equity. As things were handed out in "shares", it was impossible to know that the thousands of shares being given to employees, was nothing compared to the billions they had reserved for themselves, essentially diluting anyone of anything of value.

Is there anything to do here? People obviously want some sort of legal recourse, but no one knows where to start. Plus it's not even apparent if anything was done illegally? The cap table always had billions of shares set aside for the CEO + Head Engineer, and the tokens always had a similar arrangement.

Location: Wyoming (where the company is filed), I'm in Texas. 100% of employees are remote, with many in India. No one knows where anyone lives, and it's suspected at this point that the CEO and Head Engineer were using fake names the entire time.

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Some other details:

There have never been any tax documents of any sort, as there was never any money sent to anyone.

I'll add more details as I can think of them. I'm devastated and not thinking straight.

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