{"id":12622,"date":"2019-12-16T15:11:10","date_gmt":"2019-12-16T19:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/?p=12622"},"modified":"2019-12-17T23:49:38","modified_gmt":"2019-12-18T03:49:38","slug":"in-silicon-valley-are-you-playing-monopoly-without-knowing-the-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/in-silicon-valley-are-you-playing-monopoly-without-knowing-the-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"In Silicon Valley, Are You Playing Monopoly Without Knowing The Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By Larry Chiang<\/div>\n
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Have you ever played Monopoly, Pit, Dungeons and Dragons or Settlers of Catan with a group of people that just change the rules on the fly!?!<\/div>\n
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Changes like this will cost you money <\/div>\n
Changes to rules on the fly will hurt your career<\/div>\n
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PROBLEM: Engineers have been taken advantage of since MBAs have been pitching, \u201cWe are looking for a technical founder\u201d<\/div>\n
bit.ly\/dweekly710<\/a><\/div>\n
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Future common sense that\u2019s today a heresy:<\/p>\n

As a <\/span>#SiliconValley<\/a><\/span> engineer, you\u2019re gonna need to use an agent or be your own agent. 
\n<\/span>#cs183sweatEquity<\/a><\/span> (lost)
\n<\/span>#cs183law<\/a><\/span> [countermeasures]
\n<\/span>#cs183fanfe<\/a><\/span> {audit stock distributions and doing due dil}<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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<\/td>\nLarry Chiang @duck9 (@LarryChiang<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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12\/16\/19, 10:52 AM<\/a><\/div>\n
Future common sense that\u2019s today a heresy:<\/p>\n

As a #SiliconValley<\/a> engineer, you\u2019re gonna need to use an agent or be your own agent.
\n#cs183sweatEquity<\/a> (lost)
\n#cs183law<\/a> [countermeasures]
\n#cs183fanfe<\/a> {audit stock distributions and doing due dil}<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

In the old days, pro football players would negotiate their own contracts. Here is a Stanford engineering alum who works with an attorney and is now doing what I do which is proactively reading the \u201csource code\u201d. Yes, the actual contract. <\/p><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n
<\/span><\/td>\nJustin Reid (@jreid_viii<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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4\/11\/19, 3:25 PM<\/font><\/a><\/div>\n
Nothing like having your car unjustly towed by your HOA, spending 8 hours combing through community bylaws, catching them red-handed violating their own policies in the bylaws, taking this up against their attorney and then forcing them to pay the fees to get my car back 😁<\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

This is an opinion that is currently a school of thought that few posses but in the future engineers will mostly think:<\/span><\/p>\n


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As a #SiliconValley engineer, you\u2019re gonna need to use an agent or be your own agent like pro athletes @RSherman_25 or #RayAllen (UConn alum). <\/span><\/p>\n

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The first step is awareness and optional would be to text me you\u2019re interested in <\/span>#cs183law<\/a>. <\/font><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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