Leaked Pinterest Documents Show Revenue, Growth Forecasts

Re:Leaked Pinterest Documents Show Revenue, Growth Forecasts by coke12 on Saturday October 17, 2015 @06:17PM (#10406375)

Part of the reason a company stays private is to have more control over the release of financial information. Why would a company that values privacy choose to do business with a firm (a16z) that it can't trust?

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Re:Leaked Pinterest Documents Show Revenue, Growth Forecasts by jsprogrammer on Saturday October 17, 2015 @06:47PM (#10406474)

That doesn't give a motivation for the secrecy.

I don't know why someone would or would not do business with a16z. Was a particular contact breached here? I don't remember reading such an allegation, but I may have missed it.

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Re:Leaked Pinterest Documents Show Revenue, Growth Forecasts by coke12 on Saturday October 17, 2015 @07:11PM (#10406541)

Privacy is a reasonable thing to expect in basically all business transactions, regardless of whether it's listed specifically in a contract. Firms that want to maintain good relations with the startup community want to be seen as trustworthy.

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Re:Leaked Pinterest Documents Show Revenue, Growth Forecasts by jsprogrammer on Saturday October 17, 2015 @07:49PM (#10406663)

I'm reading lots of justification, but no reason for why the secrecy is desired.

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Re:Leaked Pinterest Documents Show Revenue, Growth Forecasts by oldmanjay on Saturday October 17, 2015 @11:52PM (#10407156)

Competitive advantage is the reason for secrecy.

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Re:Leaked Pinterest Documents Show Revenue, Growth Forecasts by jsprogrammer on Sunday October 18, 2015 @05:47PM (#10409938)

Interesting. Do you know of any ways to compute the competitive advantage of holding a given secret?

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