I built Excel for Uber and they ditched it
Best quote: "People working for Didi apply for intern jobs at Uber China and then exfiltrate our data. We can’t let them see the formulas or they’ll just copy what we do!”<p>This is so true. People in the US just don't understand the level of economic and industrial espionage that happens in China on a daily basis. I was responding to an unrelated breach at an unnamed tech company back in mid-2000s time frame and had a side bar conversation that went like the following:<p>Them: "Yeah, we just opened a tech center in Xinjiang and ... wow, we've had quite the rash of lost ID badges there recently"<p>Me: "Have you considered that they're not 'lost', but rather 'sold' for profit?"<p>... silence ...<p>I don't know if executives are aware but just don't care, or if they're simply incompetent, but China has productized industrial espionage on a massive scale. GE Aviation was a victim more recently: <a href="https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2022/11/16/accused-chinese-spy-who-targeted-ge-aviation-sentenced-to-20-years/69653460007/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2022/11/16/accused-chi...</a>