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feveritch @feveritch.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

These are serious allegations, and I have to assume that Rippling, a company currently valued at $16 billion, is confident to prove them in court, in the US and Ireland as well. We‘ll find out soon enough. www.inc.com/jennifer-conrad/deel-le…

Rippling suspected that someone was leaking proprietary information, so its
IT team set up a "honeypot" trap involving a fake Slack channel that led
them to O'Brien. In his court statement, O'Brien said that when he was
caught, someone at Deel instructed him to destroy his cell phone (he did;
with an axe) and suggested he flee to Dubai. Instead, he began cooperating
with Rippling's lawyers.
Rippling is currently suing Deel in the Northern District of California for
alleged theft of trade secrets and in Ireland for the related coverup. Deel has
not publicly commented on the allegations of corporate espionage. It has,
however, filed a countersuit in Delaware accusing Rippling of, among other
things, impersonating a client to steal trade secrets, helping companies
evade sanctions on Russia, and using "heavy-handed tactics to terrorize"
O'Brien when he tried to report those sanctions violations.

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feveritch @feveritch.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

This is the guy they’ve hired to go after Deel 😂

Rippling is playing hardball. Its lead lawyer on the lawsuit is Alex
Spiro of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, known for
representing Elon Musk, Jay-Z and Mayor Eric Adams of New
York City.

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feveritch @feveritch.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

To be clear, I’m not rooting for anyone here. I’ve spent maybe an hour reading up on this ecosystem and it seems to be populated exclusively by assholes. I just know I don’t want to have anything to do with it.

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