

Tran started a separate company, ChiliCo, to buy and sell chili peppers. Underwood didn’t want to work with ChiliCo because he feared it wouldn’t have the assets to guarantee payments. To make matters worse, Underwood says, Tran and Lam made several failed attempts to hire Roberts, his COO, to work for ChiliCo.
So the chili sauce maker switched up the deal, and then tried to poach from the chili grower. What a dumb move.
Was there a Code Red? ?