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An absurd fight for credit

Salary.com's chief executive, Kent Plunkett, has an impressive resume. Investors in the Massachussetts company's public offering, earlier this year, were reassured that he had co-founded another public company, dotcom phenomenon Infospace. Not according to Plunkett's former colleagues at the Bellevue-based Infospace. A spokesperson told Boston Business Journal: "Naveen Jain was the sole founder." It's common for early employees, like Hollywood producers, to fight for a share of credit. But not, usually, when the project flamed out as spectacularly as Infospace, which collapsed from a market value of $31bn, to one fiftieth of that now.

3:43 PM on Fri May 18 2007
By Nick Denton
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