Andy Enfield

[Hoophound]

It is true from what I know. . He didn't create the company, he just worked there and invested in it. He owned a small share that grew exponentially and is/was sitting on a couple million or more.

 

[Ronpatz11]

In the ultimate who cares post, Amanda Marcum was not a Supermodel. Not surprising that a bunch of sportswriters, the kings of hyperbole, dubbed her as such. Smokin hot nonetheless. And him pulling her was still a bigger upset than FGCU over Georgetown.

 

[whaler11]

The press misstated the story - he didn't start the company, but he was an early investor and participant and profited significantly from it. It's apparently worth much more than the $100M quoted and he still has equity in it.

Well he certainly wasn't correcting them and if you read his direct quotes you'd see why they had that interpretation.
"Create" versus "help build".

Enfield:
I had a good friend in New York, New York/New Jersey, named Tom Rizk, who was previously a CEO of a publicly traded company that was semi-retired, and through Tom and his partnership I joined his partnership, and we created a company around a technology called TractManager, which is a contract management service in the health care industry, which I didn’t know much about.”

What turns out to be the truth from Rizk:

He wasn’t involved in the initial financing of the business — that was all me. Andy decided to join TractManager in November of 2000, and was one of the very early employees of the company, probably the seventh or eighth employee. He was not a co-founder. He was involved in the early stages of building all the little building blocks of the company. He invested a modest amount of his own money. He owned a small percentage of the company and the company grew into something significant.”

 

[Hoophound]

Well he certainly wasn't correcting them and if you read his direct quotes you'd see why they had that interpretation.
"Create" versus "help build".

Enfield:
I had a good friend in New York, New York/New Jersey, named Tom Rizk, who was previously a CEO of a publicly traded company that was semi-retired, and through Tom and his partnership I joined his partnership, and we created a company around a technology called TractManager, which is a contract management service in the health care industry, which I didn’t know much about.”

What turns out to be the truth from Rizk:

He wasn’t involved in the initial financing of the business — that was all me. Andy decided to join TractManager in November of 2000, and was one of the very early employees of the company, probably the seventh or eighth employee. He was not a co-founder. He was involved in the early stages of building all the little building blocks of the company. He invested a modest amount of his own money. He owned a small percentage of the company and the company grew into something significant.”

He said he helped some good friends with a startup and that he has an equity position. All true.

I read several of the quotes and I don't think they are controversial at all. He even belittled himself multiple times by saying that he doesn't even understand what the product does.

 

[whaler11]

He said he helped some good friends with a startup and that he has an equity position. All true.

I read several of the quotes and I don't think they are controversial at all. He even belittled himself multiple times by saying that he doesn't even understand what the product does.

I don't think it's controversial at all either. He seems like a good guy and I hope he wins the whole thing.

I do think he could have corrected the narrative pretty easily by clarifying what was being misreported but maybe he wasn't even really aware.