'The toxicity you introduced into the workplace ends now': A health-tech startup just ousted its founder for treating employees poorly

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• HealthTap, a health-tech startup working to provide health advice by connecting doctors to patients, has fired its co-founder and CEO Ron Gutman. 
• According to a letter obtained by Recode, the board fired Gutman because of the way he treated employees.
• "The toxicity you introduced into the workplace ends now," the letter to Gutman said. 

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A health-tech startup backed by top Silicon Valley VCs has fired its co-founder and CEO after allegedly treating his employees poorly. 

HealthTap, a health-tech startup working to provide health advice by connecting doctors to patients, has raised tens of millions in venture backing from Khosla Ventures, Mayfield Fund, and others. Its board replaced its CEO Ron Gutman with tech veteran Bill Gossman, the company said in a news release Tuesday. 

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