Who Owns Codesmith? A Court Fight Takes Us Under the Hood to the Hard Parts

Well I can give my personal opinion on that and I have been researching for a while. I think Will is a gifted explainer. He said he wrote the Hard Parts originally because he didn't really know how to code well. I think he said in an interview he didn't know what a JS "Map" was when he wrote them. He has additionally said that he does talks when he wants to learn something because it forces him to learn in order to then present it to people as an expert. So given that it's absolutely fascinating how well he can explain things he literally just learned. He has additionally said that he never wanted to teach, but both his parents are teachers and he said that as a kid he would force his sisters into doing classes on the weekends at home where he would lecture to them on things.... So it sounds like he's a gifted lecturer and it's just his superpower. My opinion is the situation is quite tragic like it's an incredibly sad story. He has said publicly that he can't do something, like start a company, unless he has "permission" and that this led him to seeking degrees for the school name to feel like they gave him "permission" to be in the room. What he means by permission is really self esteem. Tying his self esteem and identiy to external validation is the thing that starts the downfall. Like since 2015, the beginning, Will has been hiring lawyers, accountants, marketers, etc... on Upwork to do critical things at Codesmith. No offense but one of the lawyers for example was $100 an hour, which sounds like a lot, but sillion valley lawyers are $1000 to $2000 an hour (seriously). But he hired people less qualified who puffed up his self esteem, told him how amazing he was, etc... This is always why I think deep down Codesmith hired into alumni as teachers - all the way to the head of instruction - because they all keep boosting the self esteem. The second someone tells him he's doing something wrong or he just doesn't accept the feedback, both as a protection mechanism and also because after a while he had a circle of hundreds of people worshiping him. The reason it's so sad is because I was an outsider that cut right into the heart of this world and spoke about it so transparently in public that he couldn't get rid of me. He tried to ignore me and keep my feedback out of his mental space and instead people in the circle, like other execs and loyal alumni, went after me instead. He never once addressed any of the feedback I gave directly (publicly or privately). The reason it's traffic is all of the things I warned about and gave feedback on that were issues actually contributed to their downfall and he generally ignored them instead of listening. Again this is all just my opinions. But I think at some level if he heard my feedback and took it seriously that Codesmith would be surviving today. That blog post written about me was the last straw though. No more trying to help Codesmith because clearly Will will say whatever he has to not have to look into the mirror.