Here's my take on the whole situation, it can be essentially boiled down to three major points
Guess they lucked out by not hiring her, otherwise this would be grounds for a lawsuit.
Is there any evidence that she is a weirdo that fucked up his life? I didn't get that impression from anything at all here.
What I meant by the post was that "she is a figure that came into his life and radically changed it like yoko/anisa but not in a bad way". She did however, by Lucas as own admission, radically alter his future.
Thats the two ways to look at it. Either she's the one manipulating him against his family or she exposed his family's screwed up relationship dynamics. Regardless it sounds like they were not happy that he decided to marry a woman outside of their social sphere and decided to keep her as distant as possible. Another great example of why you shouldn't go into business with family.
She had(has?) bright dyed hair and going off their decision to put off having kids, is less of a fundie than his family. Its worth noting that Lucas has previously claimed to have had atleast one close girlfriend before her, so not quite an Anisa-Ian situation. If you believe him.
Regardless of either of these, his brothers joined him as business partners and ended up as majority owners without paying him, until now. That sounds like something a bunch of Indians would do.
A chemical engineering degree isn't going to be that useful at a match/gamer tactical gear company, especially if you already have people experienced with materials. I will leave that as the only negative comment because I'm way too biased since I think Lucas is Dunning-Krueger personified.
Lucas comes from money, started the company in his teens when he had no real practical experience, and his Dad sat on the board last I checked. Where do you think the seed money came from and who do you think got Lucas going on the right track? I think his Dad was the real owner. Maybe it is shitty the brothers became parasites but at the same time we really don't know the details on how the ownership was structured and we don't know who made that company work; all we got was Lucas being the face of the company. The Dad could of gave them his ownership stake to keep it a family business. Like my comment above suggested, I have a feeling the Botkin family is one of those tight-nit, intermeshed, co-dependent and cult-like families you hear horror stories of people marrying into. This is somewhat relatable in my personal life.
Love of money has a way of destroying families. A funny thing, that.
Not really. The family has managed to build up some resources over the years, but they've never been swimming in it.
Has it ever been posted in thread about the Botkins and their wealth? The online rumors were Botkin senior had money and some influence in rural Tennessee.
Lets take this on good faith and Geoffrey Botkin is indeed invovled with all this. It would be a little hard to achieve all this riding the coat tails of his son's success. This reminds me of Belle Janke's dad too., he had connections and wealth.
I don't remember the exact details but a couple years ago Lucas was doing a livestream on twitch (playing Battlefield 4) and he talked a little about his family and early life (it might be archived on his twitch channel but idk)
Comparing he and his brother makes Lucas out to be naive and trusting, which is unfortunate because he is absolutely the face of that brand. Love him or hate him, he has actual feelings whereas the brother is a businessman and this is proof. He isn't handling it as a PR issue, he's acknowledging how personal it is and setting his former brand on fire on his way out.
Did he finally come out of the closet or something?
