![]() He also said the company hasn't received new investment since 2015, and said public lien records show that it has borrowed from Hercules Capital, a high-rate lender. Massoumi, who remains a minority shareholder of Zocdoc, claims the company has spiraled since his departure, implementing pricing changes that angered its user base of doctors and shutting out Medicare and Medicaid patients. All three are still with the company, according to their LinkedIn profiles. Ganju, Kharraz and Samroengraja all had performance issues and potential replacements were being interviewed, the lawsuit claimed.īut after removing Massoumi, the suit said, Kharraz became CEO, Ganju got a board seat and Samroengraja held onto her job. While news accounts from 2015 described Massoumi's departure as consensual, the lawsuit reveals that there was tension behind the scenes. Instead, defendants directed private security guards, hired specially for the occasion, to eject Mr. Massoumi outside of the board meeting on November 11, 2015. ![]() Massoumi tried to find a quiet space in the Zocdoc offices to assess the impact of the attempted coup," the complaint said. He said they ignored his efforts to halt the meeting and had him removed from the building. In a lawsuit filed Tuesday, Massoumi said his cofounders, Nikhil "Nick" Ganju and Oliver Kharraz, and Netta Samroengraja, the company's then-CFO, pushed him out at a board meeting before Massoumi could exercise stock options that would have given him control of the company. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.Ĭyrus Massoumi, the former chairman and CEO of doctor referral startup Zocdoc, has accused three executives and board members at the company of removing him in a "coup" nearly five years ago.Do you know more? Email Jack Newsham at or get in touch using the app Signal at 31.Massoumi said Zocdoc has been poorly run since his departure, and wants a court to nullify every action undertaken by the board over nearly the past five years.The startup's co-founder said he was kept in the dark about the purpose of a November 2015 board meeting and said he was removed from the office by security guards after he tried to stop the meeting. ![]() Cyrus Massoumi claims in a new lawsuit that he was fraudulently forced out of his role as CEO of medical referrals startup Zocdoc in 2015. ![]() Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders. ![]()
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