Basically what I'm reading here; Is Duke negotiated a company take over with a person whom is not of legal age to enter or negotiate a contract, nor is his name legally bound to any of the companies assets or documents. I find this entire take-over to be completely ignorant. Who technically owns this company? Is it Lance Jesserun or whatever name he goes by now days? He's the only name I can find for the company. This personally sounds to me (Though I still lack knowledge on this situation in general) that the company take-over was negotiated with the incorrect person, and Duke failed to obtain proper paperwork before proceeding. I've been following the XFS/GVH thing off and on since the beginning, and I wanted to believe Duke was doing a noble thing, but after watching that video, and reading his replies in this thread, I can only logically put him in the same boat as Jonny himself.
I wouldn't be so quick to dump Duke in the same pile as Jonny. Since Duke took things off, customer wise, public aside from these non customer threads, there haven't been regular complaints and hate threads. There have been some dropped customers, cut plans, etc. but very little noise or escalation. Contrast that to GVH+Jonny who couldn't go more than a few days without a customer hate thread.
The Lance Jessurun situation continues to confuse folks and honestly, just a matter of time before that fellow gets slapped in real life for actions of company in his name. I don't doubt that such already probably has hit his credit report and other systems negatively.
Lance (who I jokingly call Lancer the Friendly Ghost) is someone that does exist, but NO ONE has interacted with except Jonny. His material involvement in GVH matters is approaching ZERO.
I'll repeat for sake of history class, that GVH months ago at Jonny's request was looking to bail. He contacted me about trying to find someone to purchase the VPS customers (they total thousands of containers). After looking around, asking folks and getting laughed at, it was clear, as has been past year that no one wants VPS customers period - NOT EVEN FREE IN MANY INSTANCES.
Stuck with the load of VPS customers, the support, billing, bad behavior on nodes, etc. and coupled with lack of humans to work such, GVH went into a spiral of sorts. Bills were ran up as GVH tried to under "leadership" of that genius Eric Walstrom (later shown to be a 17 year old hacker) tried to offer viable prices. With the Eric situation, less workers and probably interest as bills mounted under a phase of trying to offer more financially sustainable offers (in reality said offers weren't much better and reduced sales interest was just GVH hitting market cap limits on susceptible people who would buy from that brand).
Back then Duke got involved in the concept of taking things over - initially was about the VPS customers since he had experience there and that asset pool on paper was viable although then not profitable as-was.
There was some dancing about GVH, value, what someone should pay for acquiring, who should be paid, if Jonny's parents should be made liable via a deal, Lance tied in, etc. Lots of wasted time and friction, no deal in official capacity done.
Obviously still was that mounting pile of debt to CC/HVH that wouldn't and shouldn't disappear just cause someone transferred assets or bailed.
Universal concern of all, thousands of customers who if things went or still go south that will be yelling and screaming. Customers showing up to yell in forums would be real drama we haven't seen in eons on a company. It would ding GVH, Xfuse/TacVPS, HVH, CC, etc.
So logically, the debts owed to vendors above are best trying to be managed and slow to push matters by them. No one wants that influx of stress and work suddenly. That's stage things are still in, although debts being due aren't patience and virtues, they have limits. Those limits are why you saw Jonny thinking coming back to offering VPS was a good thing ---> to make money to in part pay down prior debt. Those limits were pushed by someone in CC land who seeded this mess. Unsure what chief Buylow was thinking. Outcome = effective as it got Jonny booted from LET again. Maybe that was the intent big picture, hell if I know on that one.
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