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Sure, it can happen, and something like it probably has. The point is that doing it and being caught out would be something approaching corporate suicide, and
by _jal 5y ago
Sure, it can happen, and something like it probably has.
The point is that doing it and being caught out would be something approaching corporate suicide, and sane leadership would not risk it.
This places it in the bucket of 'unlikely, high impact' risks for potential clients. They'd want to design process and contractual language to try to make such perfidy apparent and not bet the farm, but I doubt it would be a deal breaker.
I would think IP concerns would dominate in such an arrangement.
- nosianu 5y ago> would be something approaching corporate suicide No it would not. Just like in any other case where a corporation had to pay a huge fine - they do it, or it even gets lowered significantly, and then move on. The executives who were responsible retired long ago and the motto of shareholders and management always is "look to the future and don't bother me with old problems". You make quite an assertion based on what - the opposite has already happened many times. Risk that has to be paid for much later often is worth it, especially when it's going to happen to a new team. Not that the risk for a CEO is worth worrying about (for them) even if they were to get caught, the term "golden parachute" exists for reasons.