A longtime Silicon Valley tech executive claims in a new lawsuit that a Mountain View, California, financial-technology firm stole intellectual property from its San Francisco rival so easily that every startup should fear the same thing happening to them.
Scott Ellison of Palo Alto, California, alleges in his lawsuit filed Tuesday that he was wrongfully fired from Mountain View firm Stampli after reporting to its CEO that a newly hired executive had misappropriated documents from his former employer — a competitor in San Francisco named Front — and had given the materials to Stampli along with live links providing access into Front’s internal systems.
“This to me is not just beyond wrong, it’s so brazen,” Ellison said in an interview.
