Did I ever tell you about my first startup? We did top secret project for the US government and sold to a branch of the government for about $100 million.
The name? Oh, I can't tell you the name. That's top secret!
One of the senior engineers at a past employer once worked for a government contractor. Their product didn't work. At all. And everyone at the company new it.
However, their customers were all government agencies, and the work was classified. Which meant that none of them could tell other government agencies that the product didn't work. At all.
So they went on merrily selling the same non-working product to multiple agencies, one by one, until they ran out of agencies working on classified products that didn't already know they were full of shit. At which point I assume the company went bankrupt and the engineers took their saved-up salaries and found other jobs.
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Did I ever tell you about my first startup? We did top secret project for the US government and sold to a branch of the government for about $100 million.
The name? Oh, I can't tell you the name. That's top secret!
True story, I think:
One of the senior engineers at a past employer once worked for a government contractor. Their product didn't work. At all. And everyone at the company new it.
However, their customers were all government agencies, and the work was classified. Which meant that none of them could tell other government agencies that the product didn't work. At all.
So they went on merrily selling the same non-working product to multiple agencies, one by one, until they ran out of agencies working on classified products that didn't already know they were full of shit. At which point I assume the company went bankrupt and the engineers took their saved-up salaries and found other jobs.