In 2020, I joined as co-founder of a startup. The founder had the patent in his name.

The verbal agreement was he’ll transfer the patent to the company name. I started working on the project. In 2021, I was getting my legal things sorted to claim equity when I was told, (as required by law) that the company had a considerably large fine that was increasing every day due to the founder not paying taxes.

I was lied to, not aware. My accountant who was supposed to check things for me, such as the health of the company, also screwed up and didn’t inform me while I was getting ready to register.

Anyway, I no longer trusted the founder. Asked the founder to get sorted and only then I’ll consider working any further. He got verbally abusive, and defensive and went berserk with all kinds of claims. Then proposed to me. He loved me all of a sudden. Started stalking me, sending paragraphs of text begging me to work with him. I think it was a ploy to deny me anything.

I found out via a third party he was stalking me while I was accompanying my sister. When asked to stop he wouldn’t. Would constantly call, and msg. I tolerated some because I wanted to sort things, at least salvage some work.

After finding my Twitter he spam messages and comments, I sent him a formal email to not contact me except for mail if needed. He replied he checks not stalks; my account, my sisters, my sister’s work, my close friend, his work, my cat’s too.

2022, he’s still blocked but he still stalks me. I got an inadvertent 3rd party notification when he signed something from my account. This year last month, on my birthday, he sent me an SMS, not for work, but his proposal.

I found out today that he messaged my mother’s IG saying it was disrespectful of me to ignore his call. His sister also called, I can see via truecaller. She checked my LinkedIn. My sister told me he had called her as well.

Should I report or ignore it? My family asked me to ignore it then it’ll go away. It’s disturbing me.

I fear taking action would aggravate the situation.