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Re:CEO of Banjo admitted to being a Neo-Nazi skinhead in his... by koheripbal on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @02:01PM (#23009872)
You expect them to go through 30-year old records on their creditors? Have you ever gotten a loan that required interviews with the people you went to high-school with?!?!
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Re:CEO of Banjo admitted to being a Neo-Nazi skinhead in his... by SQueeeeeL on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @04:12PM (#23011333)
I mean, you're not getting millions of dollars of funding. Also, people get rejected from 100k house loans for much less than this...
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Re:CEO of Banjo admitted to being a Neo-Nazi skinhead in his... by fortran77 on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @04:47PM (#23011769)
Yes. And for routine security clearances, people I went to school with are certainly interviewed or at least scrutinized.
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Re:CEO of Banjo admitted to being a Neo-Nazi skinhead in his... by rsynnott on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @04:54PM (#23011860)
If a company's investing 100m in a company where directors likely need security clearances etc (I mean, I don't know if they do, but given the industry I would assume so), then, er, yeah, I'd expect a pretty thorough background check.
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Re:CEO of Banjo admitted to being a Neo-Nazi skinhead in his... by koheripbal on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @05:01PM (#23011956)
...and they probably do do a background check - one that he would have PASSED.
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