I’m not sure how anything James O’Keefe _could have realistically done_ _would not have_ wooed former donors, given that he was the public face of his previous employer and they were publicly trying to push him out of his job.

Since the HN zeitgeist believes non-competes should be illegal and side work should be owned by the employee, I’m not sure how anyone here could say that James O’Keefe did anything wrong in this case, unless your political ideology overrides your rationality.