[vickychijwani]

> Beast mode intern flirts with the idea of launching a competing startup under the guise of innocent open source project

From the article:

> I’m not a business person. I’m just an open-source dev who likes to build weird things for fun. (If you doubt my track record of building things that don’t make money, just check out the list on my website, and note the conspicuous absence of anything that’s ever made a cent of revenue.)

This doesn't make your interpretation impossible, but it's certainly very unlikely.