Fruit Street Health

see more at www.fruitstreetsucks.com | This is meant to be a warning about Laurence Girard, his series of failed businesses, and how he defrauds investors. Many investors lost money, not because of a startup failing, but because of deliberate and masterminded fraud behind it. Investors were deliberately lied to about material information such as: | 1) Laurence Girard’s education. He claimed to go to Harvard, that he was another Zuckerberg or Gates. Little did we know he was a student at Harvard’s open-enrollment online education program, Harvard Extension School. He used the Harvard brand in his public branding and in his personal branding. | 2) Laurence Girard’s relationship to co-founder. Laurence deliberately hid his relationship to his co-founder, when taking our money. Had anyone known he was in a relationship with the co-founder it would have dramatically altered the decision of whether to invest or not. | 3) Laurence Girard’s compensation. Laurence claimed not to be taking salary and to be taking minimal expenses. In truth he was taking & 036;15-25,000 out of this company’s bank account on a monthly basis to pay for 2 luxury apartments, stays at luxury hotels, expensive clothing, broadway shows, romantic trips with his co-founder and more. The company was more akin to a personal piggy-bank than anything else. | 4) Laurence Girard’s past endeavors. His past efforts were represented as being successful. Crimson Coders went under due to unhappy clients not receiving their deliverables. The few customers who learned who was actually doing the coding were also unhappy that despite thinking they were purchasing coding from Harvard students (Crimson Coders), they were instead receiving horrendous coding courtesy of a Phillipine outsourcing group, Ingenuity Technology Consultants. Additionally, from the information investors have since received from prior business associates of Laurence Girard, Laurence stole money from this other company for personal benefit rather than honoring warranties for clients left with unworkable products. | 5) Laurence Girard’s inappropriate relationship with suppliers. Laurence Girard colluded with John Naranjo of Ingenuity Technology Consultants to scam investors. Despite a long track record of intolerably bad deliverables Laurence continued to use John Naranjo and Ingenuity to develop and code. This is despite long experience with Ingenuity cost over runs and missed dates, paired with non-functioning code written to standards that would make the most pitiably code-ignorant sixth grade html trainee laugh. John Naranjo defrauded investors alongside Laurence Girard. Investors are still receiving information on John Naranjo from their investigations and it appears that more may come from another investor. | It is to be noted that Laurence Girard is an extraordinarily gifted socio/psychopath. He is very convincing, which is why he succeeded in defrauding 60 investors of their hard-earned money. It is also why he led so many of us to hold him blameless for so long. His gift at twisting words and lying about others’ words is second-to-none. After being fired, Laurence stole the company’s bank account and drained it of money for his personal benefit. So great is his gift of lying that we sided with him at that point – he had characterized himself as the victimized founder Harvard dropout getting a company stolen from him. In time, he proved himself for what he is. A criminal with no regard for anyone but himself. One moment he is your friend, the next he threatens to sue your pants off, the next you’re best buddies, the next he wants your support “or else,” the next he is trying to bribe us with extra shares in return for voting him as a director, then the next he will sue our pants off if we do not vote for him as a director. | We would hope that anyone investing in anything Laurence Girard related might find facts valuable in determining their appetite for risk and the track record of the potential recipient of their money. | see more at www.fruitstreetsucks.com