Revolving Door in the Tech Space?

2 pointsBuleBule3 comments

Am trying to work out the extent of the revolving door that exists between technology vendors and analyst firms covering those vendors.

I can point to two CTO's at major tech vendors who used to be senior analysts at major tech firms, but am struggling to find other examples.

Am wondering if its as endemic as I suspect and what the effect on the tech space has been if any.

Any thoughts?

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Don't forget about "pay to play" either, where hiring these firms encourages (to say the least) positive coverage. Or how easy/common it is for these firms to be paid to write various white papers which usually possess the rigor of Looney Tunes. I had a job for a while discrediting these things - talk about having a battle of wits with a punching bag.

what do you mean there's no wiki page for it?

So its a pretty well known thing and I am just realizing ?

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