Jeff Goldstein and Nishant Ramachandran worked together as business associates for over fifteen years, starting in or around the year 2000. During many of those years, Goldstein worked full time for Ramachandran, but as with many start-ups and emerging companies, such work was furnished based on an agreement to receive substantial amounts of deferred pay from Ramachandran. However, after many years, and despite the profitability of the business, Ramachandran had not made good on his promise to provide the deferred pay to Goldstein. To protect himself, Goldstein requested and received a handwritten acknowledgment of debt from Ramachandran, which was signed by Ramachandran on September 17, 2015, and which was accompanied by a spreadsheet calculating the debts owed to Goldstein. When Goldstein still wasn’t paid, Zohar filed suit in Los Angeles on behalf of Goldstein. On March 3, 2023, a jury returned a verdict in Goldstein’s favor for the sum of $2,284,609.55.