Did some more reading, and it appears Brad decided to "backpay" everyone on the team for however many months of work (if you can call it that) they put in before the kickstarter. If that's the case it was basically just stealing money when they opened up that new site. They basically said "Well, we did all this "work" on something that doesn't actually exist and feel like we should be compensated. So just give us some money, OK?" If you were going to backpay people there was no way 150k was ever going to do anything other than empty dumb people's bank accounts.
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