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I've signed a number of bullcrap NDAs in SF and the valley– small and large companies alike. This is just romanticizing the valley.
by GuiA 13y ago
I've signed a number of bullcrap NDAs in SF and the valley– small and large companies alike.
This is just romanticizing the valley.
- dasil003 13y agoIt's a question of degree. Obviously there is still some secrecy (see Apple). But I can't argue with the general culture of information sharing being much more prevalent in SV than elsewhere, and I've spent my career split between Mountain View, Minneapolis, Santa Fe, and London, so I think my anecdote carries some validity.
- michaelochurch 13y agoI've signed a number of bullcrap NDAs in SF and the valley– small and large companies alike. Same here. In fact, the most obnoxious ones were from California companies. There was one company where I had a personal introduction (high school friend knew the CEO) and they still wanted me to sign an NDA just to take a damn coding test. (Not an NDA covering the coding test, but one that included a two-year nonsolicit.) I'm sure there are a lot of junior idiots who are that desperate for startup jobs; me, I told them to rightly fuck off (in nicer language). New York VC-istan may be worse, but California VC-istan seems to combine New York greed with California presentation, and that's just fucking dishonest. I have a lot more respect for people like traders, who are utterly greedy but completely honest about being so.
- hga 13y agoEchoing dasil003, perforce there is more sharing because non-competes are uniquely unenforceable in California.