Sameer posted the comment on LinkedIn when Grover’s sister Ashima confronted top management at the fintech firm, tagging senior executives by a BharatPe associate, that employees are not getting their salaries.
In response, Sameer wrote, ‘Ashima sister- your brother stole all the money. There is very little left to pay the salary.” (Your brother has stolen all the money so we have very little left to pay the salary.)
While Sameer was criticized for his post by several users, he later apologized and promised to pay the dues.
The development comes as top management at the Sequoia-backed fintech company is engaged in an image-building exercise following Grover’s exit from the company.
Earlier a colleague, Karan Sarki, tagging Sameer and other co-founders of BharatPe wrote, “Dear Suhail and Shashwat Sir, we have not received the salary for the month of March despite following up on email several times and going to the office. You have dismissed all the old admin staff of BharatPe without giving any reason and their salary has not been paid. We were with BharatPe since the company started and now we are nowhere because of your internal politics. We are poor people and we have houses to run, small children to take care of. We are spending our money for the small cash of the company and our reimbursement bills have not been paid since December. All BharatPe employees are enjoying paid office trip to Goa and we engraved employees are fighting for their salary and job. What kind of leader are you?”
A BharatPe spokesperson did not comment for the story.