I've seen people try to play this game. They'll pretend they want to buy you/partnership/invest/be a client and then ask pointed questions: "What dependencies are you using on your backend for XYZ ... have you found any issues with that? If you were going to rewrite it, how would you approach it?"
In the weeds questions about detailed implementation. "Do you have a detailed architecture diagram?" etc. People who haven't seen it are like "boy they are serious. Look at their diligence"
These people need to up their street smarts game: "Nah bro, they're just stealing shit."
How do you know? Check who's in the room/on the call. Ask yourself what kind of decisions these people would make. Find out who they are.
Amazon has been actually pretty light with this practice. They're pretty picky but the right people have been in the room and they haven't really gone deep into the spy questions. The real nasty violators are companies like uber and microsoft. I wouldn't be surprised if they had actual
corporate spy departments.
We had GM try to do it but they were bumblers. It was kinda cute. It also seems to be mostly American. I've dealt with a lot of Japanese and Chinese businesses and they were all genuine. If they said they wanted a partnership for reason X, then they indeed want a partnership for reason X.
If they want to steal the tech and go to other markets then there's clear nonexclusive and rights parts of the contract. It's not the "100% lies all the way down" of Uber.
I've seen people try to play this game. They'll pretend they want to buy you/partnership/invest/be a client and then ask pointed questions: "What dependencies are you using on your backend for XYZ ... have you found any issues with that? If you were going to rewrite it, how would you approach it?"
In the weeds questions about detailed implementation. "Do you have a detailed architecture diagram?" etc. People who haven't seen it are like "boy they are serious. Look at their diligence"
These people need to up their street smarts game: "Nah bro, they're just stealing shit."
How do you know? Check who's in the room/on the call. Ask yourself what kind of decisions these people would make. Find out who they are.
Amazon has been actually pretty light with this practice. They're pretty picky but the right people have been in the room and they haven't really gone deep into the spy questions. The real nasty violators are companies like uber and microsoft. I wouldn't be surprised if they had actual corporate spy departments.
We had GM try to do it but they were bumblers. It was kinda cute. It also seems to be mostly American. I've dealt with a lot of Japanese and Chinese businesses and they were all genuine. If they said they wanted a partnership for reason X, then they indeed want a partnership for reason X.
If they want to steal the tech and go to other markets then there's clear nonexclusive and rights parts of the contract. It's not the "100% lies all the way down" of Uber.