CIA Agents Search for Corporate Dirt
Venture capitalists are notorious cheapskates. Take me to any firm in the Bay Area and I will show you one issue of February’s Venture Capital Journal in the lobby-- and six photocopied versions of it in various partners’ offices. Here’s the good news, though. For firms determined to avoid debacles like Canopy Financial and Entellium, it’s now possible to hire top-notch expertise in the field of “deception detection.” As Politico reports, at least one Boston-based firm, Business Intelligence Advisors, has sent former CIA operatives into the business operations of both Goldman Sachs and the hedge fund SAC Capital in order to help them detect BS when they hear and see it. Here's how it works:
1 February 2010•3 mins read
