The company issued secured notes, essentially a contract whereby a company promises to repay at a certain interest rate. Stagg said he never recouped the money. So why go that riskier route, borrowing money? Most companies that can attract venture capital do. Taking out loans is less attractive because loans typically have to be repaid with interest, regardless of how the company fares.
Another way SpiralFrog differed from most start-ups was that it spent lavishly on salaries. Start-up CEOs typically ask for more equity in their companies rather than a big paycheck.
Mohen barely had enough board votes to keep control, and Kent, who had become CEO only seven months earlier, was sent packing. It was a questionable call.
According to several former employees, to entice users of illegal peer-to-peer sites to SpiralFrog's legal and free music service, the company needed a CEO with a strong background in advertising and music. Schrieberg, who spent most of his career as a sales manager at companies like Xerox and IBM, had neither.
The strategy was successful at drawing visitors but failed to generate lasting interest. Most people stayed a few minutes, viewed a few Web pages, and moved on. The practice of paying for traffic was supported by the board of directors and Mohen, but eventually, they lost faith in the strategy and in Schrieberg. Perhaps not surprisingly, by the summer of , it was becoming apparent that Mohen, Schrieberg, and Stagg were competing for control of the privately held SpiralFrog, former employees say.
SpiralFrog was dependent on Stagg's money, which gave him considerable influence. Schrieberg had the board behind him at least until July. Mohen's personal financial troubles and feuding with fellow board members, meanwhile, sapped much of his power. Schrieberg said Mohen asked him to be the guarantor of an American Express card that Mohen would use for business expenses. And since it was Stagg covering those expenses, he could deny any charge.
As for how he got into financial trouble, Mohen suggested that it was because of SpiralFrog's collapse. But why would Schrieberg share his card with Mohen? Schrieberg said he was just trying to help him out.
Several former employees said, however, that Schrieberg went to great lengths to ingratiate himself with board members, including Mohen. Schrieberg confirmed this but said the board member's sons were well-qualified. Hiring relatives of board members can be problematic, according to corporate-governance experts. Employees can file discrimination suits, if they believe that a board member's relative was given a promotion that rightfully should have gone to them.
Schrieberg said all the hires were cleared by the company's legal counsel. He also denied that such decisions made him unpopular with SpiralFrog employees. On the contrary, he said, "I was revered. In an e-mail exchange between Mohen and Khan, who was also a board member, Mohen lobbied for 3V to oust Schrieberg.
At this point, the majority of the board and senior- management team find him incompetent Make him vice chair, and pay him for his cooperation.
Khan replied that Schrieberg was "CEO only in name. His duties are all gone to me. Schrieberg said he resigned of his own volition in October. But he acknowledged that Mohen came to him sometime around July 21 and told him that Khan would be taking over most of the CEO duties.
He said he agreed to go along with the plan because Stagg and 3V were already calling most of the shots. But Schrieberg strongly maintains that he performed well at SpiralFrog and that the board and senior management were aware of "every penny" he spent as CEO. Starting over In an interview, Khan and Stagg said Schrieberg was kept around because of the ongoing Viacom negotiations.
Stagg said he and the rest of the board believed that removing Schrieberg would have rattled the entertainment conglomerate, which had expressed interest in obtaining a minority stake in SpiralFrog.
With Stagg's blessing, Khan and some of his lieutenants at the hedge fund tried operating the start-up for several months without any official titles. In an interview, Mohen called this effort a disaster.
In mid-September, the wheels came off. Viacom declined to invest in SpiralFrog. Stagg continued to provide some funding, but only a small percentage of what he once did. In November, Mohen gathered employees still left and told them that the company would not make payroll. The situation was tough, but there was a brief upside for Mohen: without Stagg's money, SpiralFrog's management no longer had to placate him, former employees said. Mohen was named interim CEO and began looking for new investors.
He tried convincing 3V to continue funding the company by threatening to steer SpiralFrog into bankruptcy and start all over with a new company. Still, everyone knew that such an endeavor would be impossible, according to Stagg, because the licensing deals that SpiralFrog had with Universal Music and EMI were nontransferable. If SpiralFrog went bankrupt, Mohen would have to renegotiate for new music licenses.
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