"I would like to introduce my colleague carolyn levy to my right here who's going to talk about startup mechanics and then with john levy and jason quan they'll answer some questions about getting your..."

"finally Jason and John are gonna come up here and I want to thank all of you who sent in email questions to us beforehand because we're gonna go through some of those on the some of legal mechanics qu..."

"best way to allocate stock among founders is to think about the challenge of execution and that's another way of saying the following do not place too much importance on the founder that had the idea ..."

"you heard of these it's a confidential or proprietary information invention assignment agreement agreement the CI ia protects the company's confidential information and trade secrets and ensures that ..."

"general we believe in doing it sooner rather than later and so my top four reasons about why you want to do this would be number one because forming a corporation protects you and your co-founders fro..."

"mind that different states and even different countries have very different rules about this particular issue and there's things like non-compete non-compete agreements with your employer that may com..."

"so the reason to pay careful attention to the points I've already mentioned like paying yourselves having vesting on your founders shares having a CII a that clearly demonstrates that the company owns..."

"of getting into a trademark dispute with a more established better funded company can be substantial so your best course of action is it go let the name go pick a new name and get back to work related..."

"mean Jason was just saying like there are some there are some fixes sometimes but they're painful and really expensive and people look at it in diligence this is actually one of the few things to reme..."

"are harder to to satisfy given some of the California Supreme Court rulings you know YC company ones that have fourteen interns fourteen unpaid interns that was a big mess okay John there's a ton of a..."

"sophisticated angel or institutional round when do you advise your companies to stop using these services and migrate to a traditional law firm how would you distribute the work between the two yeah s..."

"Jason our patents ever worth applying for so this is a this is sort of like oh that's good you could talk a very long time about patents and whether it's useful to or worthwhile applying for them that..."

"if you're going to spend money early on and a lawyer and you have something that's it's tricky that's a sensitive startup topic it's worth spending money on a lawyer but there are excellent services f..."

"being publicly available is there any way to prevent outsiders from seeing this detail about your company so that the the technical answer is yeah there there are ways there are methods you can use to..."

"gaining in popularity so I think we're gonna see a lot more of them yeah it's not really ycs things so we don't I would hesitate to give you any like advice about them but I know there's actually a co..."

"founder and in the Silicon Valley we all know why but like not everyone's a co-founder anyway but to answer your question no you guys will stay on the same vesting schedule the new person who came a y..."