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Re: PodTech purchased by ViewPartner, ending a bloody story

Crashed_and_Burned — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 21:23:44 -0000

I worked with this shit bag, Alex Varonos and Ivan Jackson. Alex is a life long, lier, thief and con man. His family (who owns a chain of successful pizza shops in So. Cal) are completely ashamed of him and all the harm he has done.

Warning! Warning! Warning!
Alex is an expert lier. You can sit in a room with him and he will tell you lie after lie and if someone like me took you aside and told you they are all lies, you would REFUSE to believe me. That is one very good reason this poor excuse for a human being is so successful.

Alex Varonos has a MOUNTAIN of Judgments against him. He has never paid a penny. He keeps a young girl friend, her name is Brandy, who is, I'm so sorry to say, as clueless as it gets. She is likely sitting on his money. The Moorpark house was never his. He moved in as a renter. His motive is to get in and then not pay the rent and wait out the year or so before the eviction comes. I personally helped him move into a home I thought was company owned. The owner of the home evicted him 8 months later.

Alex Varonos will steal anything he can get his hands on. Alex Varonos once stole a business check for nearly $40,000.00 and somehow managed to cash it. I know this because I personally saw him take possession of the check and rather turn it over to the proper recipient of the check, he pocketed it. I had many a conversation with the person who wrote that check and to this day, all I know is Alex Varonos got away with it.

I worked with him 7-days a week for 2 years. I was given 10% ownership of a now worthless company and I was never paid a single penny. THIS IS HIS STYLE! He will offer you a "equity position" in the company and a small salary, rather than a huge salary (that he will never pay) and no ownership.

Hey Alex, you know where I live. Don't try to sue me for slander, a courtroom is the last place you will ever want to be in. Besides, you took EVERYTHING from me so now I'm just like you, unable to pay a judgement if one was ever imposed upon me.

Pay back's a bitch!

Re: PodTech purchased by ViewPartner, ending a bloody story

disqus_PtCIQWBl9Q — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 18:35:09 -0000

You have no idea how evil they are.

Never pay employees, threaten people all around. Take investor money and use it for other companies, then closing down company and starting a new one. Ponzi scheme doesn't even cover half of it. out right crooks. Liars and complete thieves.

I pray for the day they go to jail.

Using celebrities like Kelsey Grammer and Corbin Bleu and TK Carter and Lydia Cornell to say they have entertainment and now selling Staropoly which is a huge MLM scam. I wonder how many people have paid into that particular little pyramid scheme?

Alex Varonos is one evil man and he deserves to go to jail. If he offers you a deal and sounds like a friend run the other way screaming in fear.

He has managed to get away with it, but if he is talking then he is lying.

Hold on to your pocketbooks and value your time. He preys on people who are insecure and spreads rumors behind everyone's backs.

If you are volunteering for him we already have lawsuits in California for this man to pay back labor issues for all the Pod Tech and View Partner employees he has never paid.

Re: PodTech purchased by ViewPartner, ending a bloody story

I hate liers — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 14:44:42 -0000

They did the same thing to me and several other talented people. Before it was ViewParter ( a spin off of a failed attempt to merge technology from Partner Tech Corp and Viewsonic Corp) it was Tsoftnet or Thunder Software Systems, AKA "Biz-n-Box". We developed a killer real-time Point of Sale system. Everyone who saw it, wanted it, but as soon as the prospect began to investigate the company and found out that Alex Varonos was a dirt bag, the deals always died. We were never paid for our efforts, only promised bigger slices of the profits, the only problem was, there were no profits. Varonos imbezzled every penny.

Re: PodTech purchased by ViewPartner, ending a bloody story

Name — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:12:57 -0000

do not do it. they are evil. really, they are.

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kafhfk — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 06:46:19 -0000

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Re: PodTech purchased by ViewPartner, ending a bloody story

catman23 — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 01:39:20 -0000

viewpartners is trying to get some of us to invest $100,000 each in LA. They have some pretty wild claims, saying they are 3 years ahead of anyone else in the world with their technology . They want us to go to LA airport to see it work. Is this a scam or is there anything that says they are for real.

Re: PodTech purchased by ViewPartner, ending a bloody story

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Re: PodTech purchased by ViewPartner, ending a bloody story

thorkendallthor — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 18:21:50 -0000

I used to work for Alex Varonos and Ivan Jackson in 2000-2001 for another ponzi scheme of theirs called www.usetheexperts.com basically did not pay employees, raised angel investments until the end which then put in their pockets and left before it all came crashing down. I remember him getting evicted from his house in Westlake -- pretty funny.

Re: PodTech purchased by ViewPartner, ending a bloody story

OJ — Sat, 30 May 2009 16:23:03 -0000

Mmm Kool Aid. Keep on drinking ...

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cuppycakes — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 17:57:10 -0000

Frankly Zoro is correct! This technology will take over the entire platform for HD television, internet and cell phones. And those of you that got "left Behind" probably did so, for a reason. This company now under a different name has been in business and is VERY WEALTHY. Lots of HUGE PLAYERS involved, way beyond most of your comprehension. Should probably do your homework before making false claims and assumptions as to why, how and when.

Re: PodTech purchased by ViewPartner, ending a bloody story

ZoroLovesD2 — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 19:43:48 -0000

There are always two sides to both stories. Seems like a lot of Disgruntled past employees whining and trying to get their opinion registered on the rICHTER scale.

A lot of the PodTech stuff is probably related to their lack of a actual revenue streams.

Re: PodTech purchased by ViewPartner, ending a bloody story

D2 — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 05:56:00 -0000

viewpartners. ponzi scheme.
alax varonos is a crook.
$2 mil. of company money put towards another house for him in moorpark.
he will end up in jail shortly.
All while not paying employees.
With threats to the employees who ask for pay.
They fire anyone who has a say on what they think is right.
I hope they go down soon.

Re: PodTech purchased by ViewPartner, ending a bloody story

Zorro — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 22:13:42 -0000

Actually, I heard ViewParnters, the shell company (as in shell-game), is pretty shady doesn't pay it's employees on time either, often taking up to several weeks to get around to doing it. Also heard Jason Lopez got rug pulled out from under him and is no longer there ...

Re: PodTech purchased by ViewPartner, ending a bloody story

Michael Walters — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 12:27:19 -0000

ViewPartners Corporation is a NEVADA corporation---not a Los Angeles company.
The owner, Alex Varonos, lives in Moorpark.

Re: PodTech purchased by ViewPartner, ending a bloody story

Ethan — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:47:21 -0000

First of all just speaking from some of the employees from Podtech which is now in SF, ViewPartners have not paid the Podtech employees...and they also found out that ViewPartners is pulling the plug on their Health Benefit without telling them they just happened to call their health carrier. Being Jason Lopez is the manager for this so-called firm in SF, why can't he clarify with their "headquarters" in LA what's really going on??? Jason Lopez sure has some sort of hidden agenda himself. He has not management skills at all! The only person that really benefited from this deal is Jason Lopez, but this greedy imbecile cannot MAN enough to talk to his subordinates that Podtech/ViewPartners is finished!

Re: PodTech purchased by ViewPartner, ending a bloody story

roman — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:49:26 -0000

possible Liquidation in future? why do they need them?

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Dan Henderson — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 13:21:41 -0000

Insane that a guy saying that he was the founder then says well not exactly.

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zato — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:25:45 -0000

Surprising! Microsoft must have pulled the plug.

Re: PodTech purchased by ViewPartner, ending a bloody story

Retards — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 21:01:24 -0000

Someone paid 500K for 100K worth of production equipment, some antiquated voice over guys and poorly produced tech infomercials. Whoever close this deal deserves a medal. I just wonder if they're going to pay their debts now.

Re: PodTech purchased by ViewPartner, ending a bloody story

Eric Rosser Eldon — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:58:43 -0000

Posted it.

Re: PodTech purchased by ViewPartner, ending a bloody story

JasonL — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:50:56 -0000

Not to fall too deeply into the spin factor here, now that it's been defined, but PodTech's first real business operations took shape after a handful of people in December 2005 helped to define PodTech as a company to create professional media. Is that cofounding a name? No. Is that cofounding a business? You decide.

Also whoever Fact Checker is, you need to do better work. I was not a "tech" at NPR. What's more suspect is that you can't reveal who you are.

Re: PodTech purchased by ViewPartner, ending a bloody story

Also Interested — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:24:02 -0000

Please do repost their press release.

Re: PodTech purchased by ViewPartner, ending a bloody story

Eric Rosser Eldon — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 19:56:46 -0000

I don't know if the press release was made public. It's pretty lame but I can re-post it from my email if you want.

My understanding is that the VCs got the money from the sale.

Re: PodTech purchased by ViewPartner, ending a bloody story

Eric Rosser Eldon — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 19:51:00 -0000

He was the 4th employee, from my (just-gained) understanding. Corrected. Yeah, agreed it was spin. Shoulda double-checked before I ran that.

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elliottng — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 19:35:50 -0000

Nice work uniblogger. :) So what was the assumption that was fatally wrong, or was it just execution? Perhaps the whole trend of podcasting as a standalone delivery vehicle was overblown and the company was not equipped to compete with blogs and other cross-media-type businesses?