A badly behaved CEO is absolutely a reason to avoid using a whole company.
Reading through the entire story leaves me with a bad taste in my mouth, especially this bit: "still refused to list any specific part of Replit he thought I had copied, even when I asked him for such details multiple times during the phone call, despite his continuing to claim both privately and publicly that I copied Replit unethically".
I haven't used Replit, but reading about it and looking at riju.codes, I have a hard time believing that there was any secret sauce that was inappropriately used, and the sketchy refusal to give details makes me think it's more about a CEO establishing dominance over the little people than any serious IP concern.
Reading through the entire story leaves me with a bad taste in my mouth, especially this bit: "still refused to list any specific part of Replit he thought I had copied, even when I asked him for such details multiple times during the phone call, despite his continuing to claim both privately and publicly that I copied Replit unethically".
I haven't used Replit, but reading about it and looking at riju.codes, I have a hard time believing that there was any secret sauce that was inappropriately used, and the sketchy refusal to give details makes me think it's more about a CEO establishing dominance over the little people than any serious IP concern.