[EliRivers]

Didn't some of them (Apple, Intel, Google and more) get busted for agreeing under the counter to not hire each others employees?

https://www.cnet.com/news/apple-google-others-settle-anti-po...

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-lawsuit/steve-jobs-...

[atq2119]

Yes, but they did so at a time when none of them could reasonably have been described as startups. GP's point was about startups.