The Curious Case Of Billionaire Brian Sheth, An Anonymous Tweeter, Copyright Law, Twitter, And Some Company That Barely Seems To Exist

The Curious Case Of Billionaire Brian Sheth, An Anonymous Tweeter, Copyright Law, Twitter, And Some Company That Barely Seems To Exist

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Techdirt regular John Roddy highlighted a truly bizarre fight happening in a California court that may or may not involve billionaire Brian Sheth. Sheth was a cofounder of the high-flying Vista Equity Partners, and left it a year ago in a high profile exit, after the firm's other cofounder, Robert Smith, entered into a non-prosecution agreement with the DOJ and agreed to pay $139 million and "abandon" $182 million in deductions, related to charges of tax fraud. In the Forbes link above, Sheth claims he sought to have Smith leave Vista following this revelation, but "Smith prevailed" and so Sheth left. Nothing in that article makes Sheth look particularly bad.

However... an anonymous Twitter user @CallMeMoneyBags has been tweeting criticism of lots of folks involved in the private equity space, including Brian Sheth. A year ago, just about the same time that Sheth left Vista, MoneyBags tweeted a bunch of tweets referring to Sheth, and including snapshots of women who were sometimes scantily clad. The text of the tweets wasn't particularly bad. One of them just says "Brian Sheth is the King of Private Equity" with some hashtags:

The Curious Case Of Billionaire Brian Sheth, An Anonymous Tweeter, Copyright Law, Twitter, And Some Company That Barely Seems To Exist

Nov 11, 2021, 6:51pm UTC
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20211110/00105547912/curious-case-billionaire-brian-sheth-anonymous-tweeter-copyright-law-twitter-some-company-that-barely-seems-to-exist.shtml > Techdirt regular John Roddy highlighted a truly bizarre fight happening in a California court that may or may not involve billionaire Brian Sheth. Sheth was a cofounder of the high-flying Vista Equity Partners, and left it a year ago in a high profile exit, after the firm's other cofounder, Robert Smith, entered into a non-prosecution agreement with the DOJ and agreed to pay $139 million and "abandon" $182 million in deductions, related to charges of tax fraud. In the Forbes link above, Sheth claims he sought to have Smith leave Vista following this revelation, but "Smith prevailed" and so Sheth left. Nothing in that article makes Sheth look particularly bad. > However... an anonymous Twitter user @CallMeMoneyBags has been tweeting criticism of lots of folks involved in the private equity space, including Brian Sheth. A year ago, just about the same time that Sheth left Vista, MoneyBags tweeted a bunch of tweets referring to Sheth, and including snapshots of women who were sometimes scantily clad. The text of the tweets wasn't particularly bad. One of them just says "Brian Sheth is the King of Private Equity" with some hashtags: