Industry quip: Paying $70k for an insider beats $2.8M in PR fees to deny copying
lipeng0820 · x · 2026-09-07
A snarky industry take: rather than spending 20M in PR fees explaining "we didn't copy the competitor," spend 500k to buy an insider — a calculation any sane CMO would make. The post satirizes the PR economics behind copycat controversies in the industry.
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