<human>: Can you succinctly summarize the text in 1-3 sentences?

A year(ish) ago I left working for a startup that had given me an amount of shares (~3%). A little over 9 months after leaving it closed down, which was no surprise to anyone there; the founder was a brilliant person but just kept switching the vision for the company every two weeks or so. No progress on anything, and it was that for many months before I left and then the rest...etc etc. It's worth nothing that the founder played games with us constantly, and not the fun kind. The manipulative, highly paranoid type games. Really toxic environment, so I got my paperwork and bounced out.

(comment on paperwork, I know nothing about what shares in a company ought to look like or anything, so I have no clue if it's even valid... -_- )

Fast forward to now. I've been minding my own business and I check up on the founder one day on social media. Lo an behold they are claiming to have sold the startup! Wow, no lawyers have hit me up about anything sales related or otherwise... A little internet stalking later and I'm not seeing anything that would indicate it was sold.

Proof of sale so far is: 1) Founders word on various social media, 2) Redirecting the company site to a large sexy tech companies website.
What do I think really happened? The founder is trying to save face, not wanting anyone to know they had a failed startup, so lying about selling it. Why the cheeky redirect? Because... reasons? Makes the claim to have sold more valid, I guess.
<bot>: There's an outside chance I could be owed ~3% of a sale, but with no way to verify a sale. Are there any other places I can check?