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Startup Rippling sues competitor Deel, claiming a spy stole sales data

• redeux 2y ago
  >The company’s general counsel sent a letter to three Deel executives that referred to a new Slack channel, and the Deel spy quickly looked for it. Rippling subsequently served a court order to the spy at its office in Dublin, Ireland requiring him to preserve information on his mobile phone. >“Deel’s spy lied to the court-appointed solicitor about the location of his phone, and then locked himself in a bathroom — seemingly in order to delete evidence from his phone — all while the independent solicitor repeatedly warned him not to delete materials from his device and that his non-compliance was breaching a court order with penal endorsement,” Rippling said in Monday’s filing. “The spy responded: ‘I’m willing to take that risk.’ He then fled the premises.” The evidence from the article seems pretty damning and not a single "allegedly" in sight. These types of stories are always pretty amusing. I wonder how often companies cultivate spies in competitors.
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