{"id":29189,"date":"2020-06-09T15:23:29","date_gmt":"2020-06-09T19:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=29189"},"modified":"2020-06-11T15:31:37","modified_gmt":"2020-06-11T19:31:37","slug":"aws-non-compete-agreement-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/09\/aws-non-compete-agreement-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"AWS Non-Compete Agreement Lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.geekwire.com\/2020\/amazon-sues-former-aws-marketing-vp-brian-hall-accepts-google-cloud-job\/\">Todd Bishop<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/QuinnyPig\/status\/1270119618607083520\">Corey Quinn<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=23461326\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.geekwire.com\/2020\/amazon-sues-former-aws-marketing-vp-brian-hall-accepts-google-cloud-job\/\">\n<p>A lawsuit filed by Amazon against Brian Hall, former Amazon Web Services vice president of product marketing, alleges that his new role at Google Cloud violates the terms of his non-compete agreement with the Seattle company and risks exposing valuable competitive information to one of its biggest rivals.<\/p>\n<p>In a response filed Monday in King County Superior Court in Seattle, lawyers for Hall say Amazon executives repeatedly led him to believe the company would not enforce the non-competition provision of its &ldquo;boilerplate&rdquo; confidentiality agreement, in discussions before and after he signed the contract in June 2018.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/10\/apple-suing-former-a-series-chip-lead\/\">Apple Suing Former A-series Chip Lead<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"aws-non-compete-agreement-lawsuit-update-2020-06-11\">Update (2020-06-11): See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/danluu\/status\/1270833853989412865\">Dan Luu<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/QuinnyPig\/status\/1270826027623739393\">Corey Quinn<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Todd Bishop (via Corey Quinn, Hacker News): A lawsuit filed by Amazon against Brian Hall, former Amazon Web Services vice president of product marketing, alleges that his new role at Google Cloud violates the terms of his non-compete agreement with the Seattle company and risks exposing valuable competitive information to one of its biggest rivals. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2020-06-09T19:23:33Z","apple_news_api_id":"510c9517-17f8-47fe-ac91-a90b1eb91651","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2020-06-11T19:31:40Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAQ==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AUQyVFxf4R_6skakLHrkWUQ","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[19,672,51,1354,937,41,209],"class_list":["post-29189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-amazon","tag-amazon-web-services","tag-google","tag-google-cloud-platform","tag-hiring","tag-lawsuit","tag-legal"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29189"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29212,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29189\/revisions\/29212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}