When you think of Broadcom, I bet your next thoughts aren’t ’serious drugs and hookers’.  However, in the case of Broadcom’s co-founder and former CEO, networking hardware and the Charlie Sheen lifestyle can intermingle, thank you very much.

Not only did Nicholas spike executives’ drinks with Ecstasy, offer employees drugs, hire hookers and escorts for himself, customers and business associates, but he also backdated options and offered to backdate employee options as an incentive.  He was also apparently building an underground ’sex and drugs’ complex where he could hold parties–kind of like the Batcave without the homoerotic overtones. When confronted with exposure of his misdeeds, he threatened potential whistleblowers with violence, among other things.

You can read about his glorious tenure as Broadcom CEO [1] here.

I don’t know about you, but if a CEO of a supplier of mine offered me cocaine and hookers, I might think about taking my business elsewhere–call me ’square’ if you want…