Non-competes for the targeted employees are completely unenforceable in California, where both companies are based, from long standing statutory and case law.

Non-competes for the targeted employees are completely unenforceable in California, where both companies are based, from long standing statutory and case law. Many believe that law has more than a little to do with the success of Silicon Valley/the Bay area's tech concentration, which has long and far surpassed all others in the US.