This Is The Most Exciting Drama in HR SaaS History | Rippling vs. Deel

TL;DR

The video covers the Rippling vs. Deel lawsuit alleging corporate espionage via a planted spy and a honeypot Slack channel, then pivots to historical and modern corporate espionage examples (British East India Company, Oracle vs. Microsoft, Coke vs. Pepsi, Uber vs. Waymo, Alexander Hamilton, Samuel Slater) and the Wiz/CyberStarts success story.

Key insights

• Rippling created a fake Slack channel called “Deal Defectors” as a honeypot to catch a suspected spy; after emailing Deel’s executive team about it, an unauthorized login attempt occurred, leading Rip
• The alleged spy, upon being served a subpoena for his phone in Ireland, locked himself in a bathroom, said “That’s a risk I am willing to take,” flushed the phone (or something), and fled; Rippling la
• The British East India Company hired Scottish botanist Robert Fortune to infiltrate China, disguised as a Chinese merchant, to steal tea production secrets (seeds, tools, knowledge) and secretly recru