> Rabois ... told a banking event earlier this month that Big Tech companies like Meta and Google had hired thousands of people ... and to stop them working for

> Rabois ... told a banking event earlier this month that Big Tech companies like Meta and Google had hired thousands of people ... and to stop them working for rivals. I got an informal offer like this over dinner once, when I was trying to get a startup off the ground: "Come work for us; you can do your startup or find something else interesting. Just send me an email and I'll hire you". They told me explicitly that they were hiring certain people to keep those folks from working for the competition. I stress informal because, though I continue talking/emailing with this person (whom I already knew), and still do, I didn't ask to follow up. So sure, they could have been bullshitting, but why volunteer something like that unless it was real?