It’s a good reason to keep quiet. :-) What’s interesting about the first case you cite is those types of NDAs help individual companies but hurt the ecosystem

It’s a good reason to keep quiet. :-) What’s interesting about the first case you cite is those types of NDAs help individual companies but hurt the ecosystem. Wherever there’s a large grouping of world class firms, they benefit in aggregate from cross-pollination. Think NYC for banking and advertising, CA and Seattle for tech, Houston for energy, Etc. One reason people can chase the best ideas in CA is non-competes aren’t enforceable. But in any individual case someone leaving hurts the firm they were previous employed at. So firms still push for non-competes.