At any cost
Subtitle: the South African fraudster who took the tech world for more than 40 million
By: Stephen Timm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Tafelberg
Published: 2021
Place of publication: Cape Town
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9780624091172
Subjects: Securities fraud; Biography; Eran Eyal
Description: "Eran Eyal had it all: a trendy New York apartment, a jet-set lifestyle and investors lining up to get in on his million-dollar cryptocurrency start-up, Shopin. He had come a long way from an ordinary middle-class childhood in Durban and the burgeoning tech start-up world of Cape Town. But the New York authorities pounced in 2018, charged him with fraud and packed him off to Rikers Island. There began the gobsmacking unravelling of a scam that spanned investors across the globe and revealed that Eyal had built a house of cards involving fictitious products, clients and advisors for Shopin and his previous company, Springleap. As more than $40 million went up in smoke, the South African entrepreneur was exposed as an audacious fraudster determined to succeed at any cost - even if it meant spinning a web of  lies to do so."--Page 4 of cover.
Notes: Includes index.