Who was going to write that agreement ... The lawyer they were hiring? Please, their biggest mistake was doing business with an attorney at all. I've made that mistake before and had the same experience where the "big deal" was always one meeting away. 3 years later and this d-bag lawyer was in my office letting me go (I hired him). Lawyers are like hired killers, unless your hiring them to kill someone else, your the one who's gonna get axed.
The fact that you hired and then failed to fire for three years an employee of a given profession does not translate in any way to a general advise to never do business with lawyers.
It DOES, however, translate to a general advise to think hard about what skill sets your startup needs, and when.
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Who was going to write that agreement ... The lawyer they were hiring? Please, their biggest mistake was doing business with an attorney at all. I've made that mistake before and had the same experience where the "big deal" was always one meeting away. 3 years later and this d-bag lawyer was in my office letting me go (I hired him). Lawyers are like hired killers, unless your hiring them to kill someone else, your the one who's gonna get axed.
The fact that you hired and then failed to fire for three years an employee of a given profession does not translate in any way to a general advise to never do business with lawyers.
It DOES, however, translate to a general advise to think hard about what skill sets your startup needs, and when.