This reminds me of an amusing thing that happened to me years ago: The volunteer coach of my son's little kid soccer team worked at Netflix. I only really knew

This reminds me of an amusing thing that happened to me years ago: The volunteer coach of my son's little kid soccer team worked at Netflix. I only really knew this because she was really nice and invited us all to the HQ for the kids to watch a movie in a little theater they have. We had a practice a day or so after the Qwikster plan was announced and then abandoned. So of course I mention it to her, with a dumb-ass grin, sort of like, "Wow, interesting times at work, hey?" And she responds with something along the lines of, "Well, Reed thought it was a good idea, and we tried to do the best we could to make it work." It was said in a way that I immediately thought, "We?? Uh-oh." I looked her up that night and found out she was a VP and most likely deeply involved in the whole process. It took me weeks to get the foot taste out of my mouth, I had wedged it in there so badly. Lesson: In Silicon Valley, you never know if your kid's soccer coach is actually the VP of a multi-million dollar corporation making headlines that day, so keep it to yourself.