The Kickback Culture
| Man to attractive Woman: | Would you sleep with me for $1 million? |
| Attractive Woman: | Yes. |
| Man: | How about for $100? |
| Attractive Woman: | No, what do you think I am? |
| Man: | I thought that we had already established what you are and that we could start to discuss the price. |
Maybe I'm the one who just doesn't get it.
Business Week has an article on Tech's Kickback Culture this week. I just don't understand how someone could accept Friends and Family stock in an IPO, flip it for a quick profit of $40,000, and not see a conflict of interest (the person in question said that $40,000 was not enough to sway his judgement). I don't know about you, but I would want to know about that Friends and Family deal every time he recommended the company's software.