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March 5, 2014

Options Backdating: GC’s “Hippie Sensibilities” Keeps Executives Out of Jail

Broc Romanek, CompensationStandards.com

Here’s an interesting blog by Ben Horowitz, who recalls why his company didn’t get caught up in the stock options backdating scandal. Pretty scary that PwC was blessing this practice and many tech companies blindly listened…

And here’s a piece from Francine McKenna entitled “VC Horowitz Implicates Auditor PwC In Story About Dodging Backdating Bullet.”

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