Too Long; Didn't Read
Before I started down the start-up rabbit hole, I was a corporate lawyer. Some of my clients used to glaze over once we started talking about legal agreements — to them, they were simply the boring parts of the deal. To those clients, I often told them to think about the agreement not as a formality they needed to get over and done with, but as an acid test of values. I have often found that in discussing agreements, people quickly discover the true values of those across the table from them<em>.</em>