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Open original source ↗companies usually only spy on competitors when they are losing, don’t have their own ideas for product and distribution, and lack integrity. emerging market winners tend not to engage in this kind of (illegal) nonsense. they are too busy building and serving customers
very bearish sign is when companies start spending many hours in competitors’ products, or are explicitly reverse engineering. I’ve seen this happen to multiple portfolio companies, but competitors can’t win executing on…our existing product
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Rippling sued @Deel today. Our lawsuit alleges Deel cultivated a spy at Rippling & orchestrated a long-running trade-secret theft. The spy searched “deel” in our systems 23 times per day on avg, letting him spy on Deel’s own customers who were considering a switch to Rippling. https://t.co/94Lga5vXc1
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