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Googling some of these products in the article has led me down a small rabbit hole I didn't expect.. But found this bizarre website : (Probably shouldn't buy an

• solarkraft 4y ago
  On first and second look I thought it was a random shop with their logo slapped on. Om the third look I found the "guidelines" page, which is the first thing that suggests to me that this may actually be custom to SVB.
• wolfgang42 4y ago
  I’d guess that this is serious; this sort of thing is common so the corporate compliance department can make sure the company doesn’t accidentally cross the line from “gift” to “bribe” when account managers send tokens of their appreciation. (There are all sorts of limits, like “only $X per gift, cumulatively $Y per person per calendar year”.) Note that you apparently need a “Star Compliance code” to actually check out, so you can’t buy anything from here even if you wanted to. On a related note, maybe five years ago I bumped into the Google employee swag store and discovered it was built on a platform that I happen to know is written in COBOL. There are all sorts of niche providers for random services that are needed by large companies.