Scale AI is suing a former employee and rival Mercor, alleging they tried to steal its biggest customers | TechCrunch

"stole more than 100 confidential documents concerning Scale's customer strategies and other proprietary information,"

"While Mercor has hired many people who departed Scale, we have no interest in any of Scale's trade secrets and in fact are intentionally running our business in a different way. Eugene informed us that he had old documents in a personal Google Drive, which we have never accessed and are now investigating,"

"We reached out to Scale six days ago offering to have Eugene destroy the files or reach a different resolution, and we are now awaiting their response,"

Scale filed a lawsuit against former sales employee Eugene Ling and rival Mercor, alleging Ling stole more than 100 confidential documents containing customer strategies and proprietary information. The suit claims Ling attempted to pitch Mercor to a major client identified as Customer A before leaving. Scale accuses Mercor of misappropriation of trade secrets and Ling of breach of contract. Mercor denies using any Scale data, says Ling stored old documents in a personal Google Drive that Mercor did not access, and offered to have the files destroyed or otherwise resolve the matter. Scale sought a file list and sought to bar Ling from working with Customer A, which could represent a contract worth millions.

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