Comment by tomp
5 years ago
I’d agree with you if this was just a random person, but from this thread (I haven’t read the article) I gather that s/he was actually an intern... surely every intern/employee would sign some kind of non-compete / trade secret / intellectual property agreement? In that case, the CEO is completely justified in pursuing to enforce that agreement!
Again, it would be different if the CEO threatened a random third party that happened to do a weekend project in the same vertical...
Non-compete's are not (practically) enforceable in California, where repl.it is located.
https://www.callahan-law.com/are-non-competes-enforceable-in...
Why are you reading and replying to the comments when you haven't read the article? You've come at this with a terrible take by inventing a non-existent NDA that would exonerate the CEO. Why bother?
The article didn't specifically mention "no NDA" either. We've only seen one side of the story here
I don't know if I were the former intern in question writing a blog post about this I'd be damn sure to specify that there's no NDA or other agreement in place that would legally prevent him from doing this.
There's no mention of any NDA, you've just constructed it as a straw man.
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