"which in this case I clearly was. It was the first thing I thought in fact."
FWIW, I made the same mistake. My first thought on reading the post was "How could he be an early employee of Smartcar if he started last October? Those cars have been on the road for years..."
Reading the rest of the post made it clear he was talking about something different, but though IANAL it seems like a pretty obvious trademark problem if they get big enough to be noticed by the maker of Smart cars, particularly since you can't just let trademark problems slide (unlike copyright, etc) without potentially weakening your trademark to the point where you lose it.
FWIW, I made the same mistake. My first thought on reading the post was "How could he be an early employee of Smartcar if he started last October? Those cars have been on the road for years..."
Reading the rest of the post made it clear he was talking about something different, but though IANAL it seems like a pretty obvious trademark problem if they get big enough to be noticed by the maker of Smart cars, particularly since you can't just let trademark problems slide (unlike copyright, etc) without potentially weakening your trademark to the point where you lose it.