We began working with Paolo Hurinich in the ProPath program for live tournaments on October 17, 2024. Paolo served as our Head Coach and was holding $3,580.50 in company funds from live events.
In October 2025, we discovered that Paolo had been inflating how much he was charging us for some of his services – we explained that there was a breach of trust and that while we’d continue working with him in his current capacities we wouldn’t allow him to perform the services he’d been overcharging us for, but he could continue with his other duties.
Paolo then disappeared for the next 5 days and abruptly announced that he had found another job.
He was holding onto several thousand dollars from being staked under the propath program.
We calculated and deducted the amount owed to him for the days worked in October and requested that he return the remaining balance from the live stake funds.
We didn’t even ask him to repay us the inflated amounts (likely amounting to $5k+ over the course of 6-9 months)
Paolo claimed that: 1) He didn’t overcharge us for some of his services (even though on call he openly admitted that he had) 2) We should pay him a bonus for the end of the year – even though he quit prior to the end of the year – and he obviously doesn’t deserve a bonus 3) And that: “I honestly, I truly believe that the ones who are in debt here are you”
As of today, Paolo owes us $1,800.
The $1,800 is just purely live staking funds and doesn’t include the inflated amounts he overcharged us for his services (likely amounting to thousands). We didn’t calculate the full amount as it seemed kind of pointless – his quitting so abruptly makes us think that there was potentially even more going on that he didn’t want us looking into more closely.
Would strongly discourage anyone from working with Paolo Hurinich or trusting him with money.