Las Vegas Sun

March 28, 2024

The story of a failed Las Vegas startup and a founder driven to suicide

The suicide of Jody Sherman, co-founder of ecomom, one of the first investments of the downtown-based VegasTechFund, stunned all who knew him in Las Vegas and throughout the tech world, which he had been a part of for decades.

This story by Business Insider, an online publication, gets deeper into the financial problems and pressures facing ecomom in the months and days before Sherman's death.

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