How 4 People Destroyed a $250 Million Tech Company

SUPPORT OUR REPORTING: Buy a coaster pack, solder mat, or more at In this report, we close out the story on what’s going on at the tech company that sold over $250,000,000 of products in its time in business. The company has been collapsing from within for years now, silently, but grew louder this year as contractors went unpaid. Now, dozens of staff are unpaid and are filing lawsuits against former employer EK Water Blocks (EKWB), which is headquartered in Slovenia and has branches across the world. We piece together what went wrong. These reports are incredibly expensive and time-consuming to put together. To help fund our ability to do this, please support these efforts by checking out our below products: Original GN Drink Coaster 4-Pack: Limited Gold & Blue CyberSkeleton Shirt: GN Anti-Static Modmat: GN Project & Soldering Mats: Copper Plated Mule Mugs: Watch Part 1: Watch Part 2: Like our content? Please consider becoming our Patron to support us: ** Please like, comment, and subscribe for more! ** TIMESTAMPS 00:00:00 - INTRO 00:05:48 - The Good Times 00:09:15 - The First Outsider 00:11:44 - Turning Point 00:19:20 - DOWNFALL: The Leaders 00:23:10 - Edvard Konig: Unpaid Staff 00:33:27 - Edvard Konig: Loan Deathloop 00:36:38 - Edvard Konig: Threats 00:41:24 - Marko Mitrovic: Connections 00:47:26 - Kat Silberstein & Matjaz Krc: Frivolity and Spite 00:57:12 - Can EK Water Blocks Be Saved? 00:58:40 - Conclusion: EK Twisting & Manipulating 01:09:31 - What’s Next & Positive Outcomes CORRECTIONS: 00:02:15 - Joe Robey was initially an R&D engineer, then the Lead or Head Product Designer. Links to Amazon and Newegg are typically monetized on our channel (affiliate links) and may return a commission of sales to us from the retailer. This is unrelated to the product manufacturer. Any advertisements or sponsorships are disclosed within the video (“this video is brought to you by“) and above the fold in the description. We do not ever produce paid content or “sponsored content“ (meaning that the content is our idea and is not funded externally aside from whatever ad placement is in the beginning) and we do not ever charge manufacturers for coverage. Follow us in these locations for more gaming and hardware updates: t: f: w: Steve Burke: Research, Writing, Editing Vitalii Makhnovets: Video Editing Tim Phetdara: Editing Andrew Coleman: Camera, Animation, Editing