# Pollen tried to remove my article about CEO Callum Negus-Fancey and CTO Bradley Wright, and Google is assisting with it

DevFeed: [Pollen tried to remove my article about CEO Callum Negus-Fancey and CTO Bradley Wright, and Google is assisting with it](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/pollen-tried-to-remove-my-article-about-ceo-callum-negus-fancey-and-cto-bradley-wright-and-google-is-assisting-with-it-40920.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/pollen-tried-to-remove-my-article-about-callum-negus-fancey-and-google-is-assisting-to-it/>)

Author: Gergely Orosz

Published: 2026-06-28T00:40:25Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [The Pragmatic Engineer](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/the-pragmatic-engineer-2.md>)

Topics: [Google](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/google.md>), [Software Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/software-engineering.md>), [atlassian](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/atlassian.md>), [jira](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/jira.md>)

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## AI overview

The article recounts the collapse of events technology company Pollen, including layoffs, unpaid wages and contributions, unpaid vendors, bankruptcy, and an unresolved customer double charge. It then describes Google removing the author's article from search results after a copyright infringement claim, which the author says they appealed.

## Source excerpt

In 2022, I wrote about the damning fall of events tech company Pollen. The short of it: Pollen seemed to have pulled off the improbable feat of building a business in the notoriously low margin industry of events, surviving Covid-19, and building a solid software engineering organization. In April