Shawnte V. Thompson

Wow, so look what I found, calling themselves the OWNER of CedarDAO! I guess she had it planned all along.

If you are a Cedar DAO token holder, then let me say this to you: I am a Cedar DAO token holder. Our goals are 100% aligned. I quit my job and have dedicated almost 5 years of my life to this project and community. It has been the most toxic, damaging and stressful experience of my life. I entered this project with a great career and a 20 year record of excellence and success in business; an impeccable reputation. If Atlas/Cedar fails, that's my entire legacy destroyed and years of my life wasted. There is a concerted campaign right now to drive a wedge between us holders. To try to make you believe that I can somehow personally benefit from all this at the cost of other holders. That simply does not hold up to scrutiny. It is a logical fallacy. If we fail, we fail together. If we succeed, this becomes one of the most remarkable stories in DeFi. Right now, the most important thing we can do is stand firm. The external toxicity we have dealt with for so long has now seeped inside, and it is more dangerous than ever. The only way we get through this is together. We stay united, and we keep moving forward. We are Cedar.

False, yet again. Operations were moved, under signed agreement from the founder, to EverGrow Marketing Ltd in September 2022. This tweet was online for 3 years, Shawnte. No one objected to this structure ever, not once, until you decided to try to reinvent history. As always, you lie, I bring receipts. Nice try.

Shawnte's MO is always the same. She writes posts like this laced with countless misrepresentations and lies, then it gets retweeted and liked by the 15 or so anonymous accounts who have hated our community for years, and it makes her feel like she got a win. So let's go through this: 1) Absolutely LOADS of early stage startups issue non-voting shares. I am literally in an M&A situation right now with one of my companies I am a VC for, where ALL our shares are non-voting apart from the CEO. This is very normal for early stage startups. Even more typical for crowd-funded companies, whose holders almost never have voting rights. This is not intended to hurt the company, it's intended to benefit ALL shareholders. Shawnte thinks if she just says stuff, even if it's untrue, enough people will believe it. 2) If you listen to the Spaces, rather than Shawnte, you will hear that we openly discussed the timing of the funding - I need financial records for Atlas, officially under the company, to prove efficient financial management to prospective VCS. I have 1 year of those now. Ideally I would have more. 3) Are we asking VCs to invest in the DAO?! No we are not. We are asking them to invest in a tech company, where if you guys had voting shares, you would control every single vote. A group of anonymous people controlling the governance of a company we will be asking VCs to invest millions in. Utterly unrealistic. I know this world, I am part of it, and I would never touch a company at an early stage knowing I had effectively zero voting rights - the DAO would have total control over every vote. Look how much Shawnte is objecting to knowing I have a few percent in voting rights over Cedar - she is saying that is highly damaging for you all and that with that modest percent I can control votes - how does she reconcile that contradiction? 4) Look at the way she openly lies to you all - where on earth does she get a "$600k salary" from? Who is getting paid $600k? She just says stuff, she knows it's a lie (she previously said I somehow own 25% of Cedar!!!). She just makes stuff up to mislead you all and she doesn't give a damn. Then she says I am the one full of poopy?! Lol Anyway, back to my day.