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Comment by bald

6 years ago

> confidential information

aka, we did not sign an NDA with the party across the table

This doesn't matter if you don't have the millions set aside to defend yourself in court against a giant conglomerate. Giant companies breaking NDAs with scrappy startups is a story I have heard often.

  • This generally is not the case.

    If you blatantly ignore and NDA, and then make a lot of money from it, then the 'small startup' will have a ton of money because the prize is huge, i.e. a % cut to lawyers who can work pro-bono.

    Imagine you have a $10B company and some bonehead PM steals info from some small startup, for some stupid small project - it puts everything at risk.

    In most case, I think you have boneheaded actors, usually not acting in the best interest of the company.