How Amazon ‘decimated a lot of companies’ using an NDA clause
How Amazon ‘decimated a lot of companies’ using an NDA clause
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How Amazon ‘decimated a lot of companies’ using an NDA clause
We are losing our democracy, problem people. We buy Tesla, we buy everything from Amazon,…. these people are evil, ….
Competie or be eaten alive..what’s the problem..this is business not charity lmaooo
Business without ethics? 🤦
“Slavery, it’s just economics. What’s the big deal?!” – the Confederate States on the topic of the War of Northern Aggression
@@WanderingExistence Business is an analog for war, on a battleground where the territory is market-share. Even if two companies have the same country of origin, i.e., the country in which the businesses have their legal headquarters, that does NOT make them allies. Furthermore, technology has always served, and been accelerated by war, to improve one side’s chances over another. Companies attempt to reverse engineer and outright steal other companies’ technology, proprietary information, and intellectual property all the time, just like countries steal the tactics and technologies of war from other countries. If a small business chooses to enter the battlefield of business, and to delude themselves that a much larger company is their ally, and therefore choose NOT to protect their interests, NOT have an attorney thoroughly read all documents, and ensure that the heads of the company know EXACTLY what they are signing, then they are foolhardy at best, and willfully naive at worst. Any company that has even a modicum of understanding about this state of affairs would know damned good and well that to entrust the well-being and existence of their company to another company’s ethics and goodness-of-heart is absolute lunacy. These companies appear to have been naive and blinded by the potential profits that might accrue to them through an association with Amazon, and they willingly gave away the rights to their own proprietary information and intellectual property for nothing.
That is just plain old greed, based on ignorance and stupidity, and NOT a parallel to slavery.
After all the many, MANY examples we’ve had over the years, of large companies and corporations — ESPECIALLY large ones — having no ethics, it’s surprising that ANYONE would continue to delude themselves that ethics play a protective role in business. LAWS may require a company to pretend to have ethics, and lawsuits may punish them for their lack of ethics, but that’s not the same a a company actually having ethics.
Stealing someone else’s intellectual property isn’t “business”.
I know getting Amazon to market your product would be a huge benefit for a growing company, but who in their right mind gives away all of their proprietary and intellectual assets UP FRONT, just to take a meeting with someone — ANYONE — and just because they asked you?
Hilarious that alexa then went onto be a huge loss leader for amazon netting them almost none, if any profit
Amazon’s software is from Yahoo online store who got it from JC Penny. They were the first online store.
Similar issue with Walmart. Friend had created a product but based on her research, she chose not to market it to Walmart. Walmart had a history of ordering new unique products for one year from US makers, then stop making orders from, mostly, small companies. Then a year later, Walmart would clone/copy that product from some Asia country as if it was their product. Only recourse was if the product was patented, but it’s hard to prove the product was the same.