Someone Always Gets Stuck With the Check After an Expensive Meal
It would be hard to find a table large enough to seat the major Silicon Valley startups these days, but the gluttony has been underway for twenty and more years. The check always comes, maybe not for a while, but sooner or later the check arrives. Industry insiders know to keep an eye on who heads for the men’s or ladies rooms.
It’s a big check and it looks this time like the least villainous young lady seated at that table is going to get stuck with paying the tab
Charlie Javice, shown above leaving federal court in Manhattan (AP Photo) after being accused of falsifying customer data, is the young lady caught without a chair when the music stopped playing. As Warren Buffett is fond of saying, “On Wall Street you can’t see who is swimming naked until the tide goes out.” While Charlie was busy building her empire, it seems the tide went out.
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