Sam Parr: Snapchat fired Anthony Pompliano over refusing Facebook intel request
Sam Parr · MFM #168 - How to Reverse Engineer Businesses, The Indonesian King of Coal & the Story of Adidas · Apr 7, 2021 · at 27:11
Sam Parr and Shaan Puri discuss corporate espionage and aggressive competitive intelligence practices between rival tech platforms.
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“It was Anthony Pompliano. He worked at Facebook. This is all public. This is, you can read the deposition, or I believe it's deposition... And basically, according to the records that we read, he worked at Facebook. He decided to work at Snapchat, and they said something like, here's a piece of paper, write down the organization chart, tell us how it works, and then go and recruit those people. And he said, According to the depositor said, no, that's, I'm not a chance. And they fired him.”
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