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Writing on the legal side of building.
Short, practical pieces on the decisions founders and growing companies actually face — written plainly, from the company and founder side.
The second invoice
I get two calls from every partnership — the good day we sign, and the day it's already gone wrong. What sits between them is the whole story.
Why I'm writing this
I deal with shareholders' agreements almost every day. Somewhere along the way I stopped pretending they're a magic potion — and started writing about the part nobody teaches: the relationship underneath.
The thing you're holding that nobody gave you
Most founders think the agreement is the protection. The part that actually breaks them was never written down — what one founder was carrying, that the split never recorded.
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