Sam Koppelman
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5 recordings
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first heard Nov 2025
last heard 4 Sep
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So if you're a big company, normally you have a massive team of compliance people who are in charge of making sure that your products don't violate export bans.
But one of the weird things about Ubiquiti is how small the entire company is.
They actually make more money per employee than like NVIDIA.
And we spoke to a former employee of Ubiquiti's who told us that almost no one worked in compliance there.
The employee said, quote, all those processes you would see at large scale businesses, they don't really solve the problem.
And this former employee added of Robert Perra, quote, the CEO of Ubiquity recognizes that and just doesn't care about all the extra garbage.
We reached out to Ubiquity with detailed questions on their compliance practices, and they didn't respond.
And Hunterbrook can report that according to trade records, Ubiquity did halt direct shipments to Russia following the invasion without ever acknowledging that change.
But their products still flowed into Russia, obviously, through dozens of intermediaries, according to that Hunterbrook analysis of trade data.
And over 10 legal and sanctions experts we talked to said that pleading ignorance, it's not a defensible argument.
Especially because, as we mentioned, this is not the first time Ubiquity Devices ended up where they shouldn't.
Yeah, so 2011.
Yeah, and then U.S.
officials found out that Ubiquity had sold products to a distributor who ended up sending them to Iran.
And after that debacle, Robert Pera acknowledged that this was a huge problem and did a rare interview with Forbes.
He said, quote, this can't happen again.
If it happens again, I'll be in trouble.
Obviously, we have the video that we played that clearly shows Ubiquiti's devices on the front lines.
And we have trade data that shows millions and millions and millions of dollars of Ubiquiti equipment ending up in Russia.
But we wanted to see exactly how this happens.
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