What went wrong when an LGBTQ+ start-up set out to disrupt finance
, in fact, had not closed, and wouldn’t be announced for another seven months. The incident wasn’t the first time Curtis misrepresented the company’s data and finances, according to a lawsuit filed in federal court today by three former employees, who are alleging age and wage discrimination, whistleblower retaliation, and fraud.
“I’ve never experienced a more hostile environment, lie after lie,” says an employee who quit recently, feeling misled about the company from their first week on the job. “The way they treat people — it’s a very different sales pitch than is reflected internally.” The company that would become Daylight was started in 2020 by a Slovak entrepreneur named Matej Ftacnik. He brought in Curtis, who’d once worked at the U.K. dating site, to become the chief product officer. “The pitch was rainbows on cards; free Grindr,” Curtis once said. Curtis in turn brought on two British executives, Billie Simmons and Paul Barnes-Hoggett, and the three eventually began referring to themselves as the company’s “co-founders.
The staff loved the feature. “That was huge,” says Bleiberg. “Getting a debit card that said ‘Jae’ on it was such a big deal for me that I showed it to everyone. I mean, not the numbers, but like, I showed it to everyone.” The next day, as they rode home from a bar with some other staffers, Curtis began confiding stories about his youthful party days, when he would take the date-rape drug GHB and sometimes witness scary moments. “I know how to get someone out of an overdose,” Curtis assured his colleagues in the car. “I have the DJ play ‘Toxic,’ by Britney Spears.” Knox felt alarmed. “We’re all like,We don’t want to hear this. This makes me feel less confident in you as a leader. And in my mortgage.
In October 2021, Daylight’s head of product, Ethan Teng, suddenly quit, lambasting the company in a public LinkedIn post. “I was extremely disappointed by the circumstances that led to this decision,” he wrote. “In the end, it came down to staying or choosing to double down on myself: my integrity and self worth.”
Curtis was also starting to be conspicuously unavailable, telling staff not to contact him while he was gone. The company says he never took a mental-health day, but workers don’t remember it that way. “Every other week it seemed there was a reason for him to take another week off for mental-health reasons, that something triggered him,” says Brittany Canty, a former Daylight executive.
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