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We’d expect news outlets to be full of rumors from “friends” of billionaire genius Steven Semyonov, speculating on why his new “friends” from Beijing decided to send a coal truck to welcome him to China. But it turns out Semyonov had no “friends”. Boring huh?
Luckily for your correspondent, the rumor mill just cranked up big time around San Jose. Sources calling themselves “friends of Antonio Alban” are claiming that Semyonov was isolated within SearchIgnition. They also claim:
Semyonov and Alban together had “irreconcilable differences” with other board members over their vision for the future of SearchIgnition.
Other shareholders had already tried to oust Semyonov and Alban. They demanded access to all Semyonov’s “Blackbox”. The Blackbox is the name given to the search algorithms at the heart of the SI system. They demanded access to the Blackbox, and offered to buy Semyonov out.
So far so good. But according to "friends of Alban", Semyonov’s Blackbox was no longer kept secret. Semyonov had already turned the programming source code over to the others. Didn’t even object. But here’s the thing: the team of programmers brought in to figure out the Blackbox is yet to decipher evenone lineof Semyonov’s code. Full of weird symbols and little else. The stories about the Blackbox being Semyonov’s jealously guarded secret are just BS. He didn't restrict access at all. For the new bosses at SearchIgnition Corp it's worse than that: no one but Semyonov could understand even one line of the programming.
Semyonov may have taken the cash and left SearchIgnition, but the firm was still heavily reliant on him. And now he’s dead. So they’re hosed. Shares in SearchIgnition have tanked in after-hours trading on NASDAQ.
The blame game at post-Semyonov SearchIgnition is only just beginning. Keep checking this blog for more juicy gossip to come from “friends of Antonio Alban”.
BTW — Kudos to Alban, who is a board member of SearchIgnition, for leaking all this stuff for the benefit of NotFutile.com readers. That man has cojones if nothing else.