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I hope the vendors are also charged or punished in some way. They're basically cheating the other vendors that competed for the work fairly out of potential con

• borski 6y ago
  Netflix was a customer of ours and Mike was a contact, but we never gave anything to him in the way of equity or cash or gifts. But that is only because I had previously worked in intelligence, where if that happened and you got caught, you were not going to be having a very good time. I can imagine plenty of new startups that do not know how enterprise sales are done, looking for an advisor who is high up and has connections, and expect him to disclose the relationship prior to any purchase order being made by Netflix. The startup has no idea about the inner workings, unless it was extremely explicit, but it usually isn't.