if you've read the article proper, you can see that it says:

This is when we get the first major stall to the project, and it’s caused by Miles and Andrew trying to pull another fast one with licensing. Now that Andrew has Bambosh behind closed doors, instead of moving on to the next step of onboarding me, they start putting pressure on Bambosh to write them a blank check. At this point, the NDA makes it impossible for us to coordinate and communicate, so it serves here to isolate and corner a victim who is unable to communicate the aggression to the outside world.