Tech investor Denis Grosz orchestrated takedown plot of startup Toptal [Video]

Imagine you could turn back the clock and put money into Nvidia when Jensen Huang was first dreaming up the chipmaker at a Denny’s in Silicon Valley. Or into Facebook before Mark Zuckerberg found a way to generate revenue from all the eyeballs on his social network. You’d be extremely rich. 

But for every Nvidia or Facebook, there are many more flameouts. Some hardly get off the ground, while others raise money at lofty valuations before vanishing into obscurity. 

And sometimes there’s lots of drama. It’s as much a part of the fabric of Silicon Valley as the enigmatic billionaire founders, though not every scandal makes the front page. 

Denis Grosz and Taso Du Val exist in that realm of startup lore. 

More than twelve years ago, Grosz, a Bay Area tech investor, put money into a tiny but profitable startup with a novel mission: Matching talented software developers around the world with companies looking for the …