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Founders: Stop reimbursing your VC's legal fees
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todsacerdoti
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5/22/2025, 6:53:53 PM
auren.substack.com ↗
Comments (3)
robocat
· 8h ago
siliconhillslawyer has some great advice on this, and specifically on how VC captures lawyers due to repeat business:
https://siliconhillslawyer.com/2017/01/01/avoid-captive-comp...
(yeah, the site will have a bias, but the information seems amazingly good to me) I'm not a lawyer nor am I in the US - I'm just a fan of some of the articles - including ones that mention YC like:
https://siliconhillslawyer.com/2019/03/03/standard-term-shee...
but my favourite is about VC power imbalance:
https://siliconhillslawyer.com/2019/02/18/relationships-and-...
VCs use legal fees to their advantage.
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tweetieb
· 12h ago
have always thought this is insane
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todsacerdoti
· 9h ago
agreed!
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VCs use legal fees to their advantage.