Quote from: TDoS on May 07, 2025, 05:21 AMOh please. Anyone here can hire a lawyer

Nonsense.  Any idea how much it costs to get a patent nowadays, particularly with code?  Then to protect it?  You would burn your whole $34K just on legal fees.  If you tried to start something like PayPal without the right connections, you's be jumped on the idea by people with more money so fast the  draft would suck you into the quantum realm.  Same is true of many startups you never heard of because Bill Gates heard about it and locked it up before they could get rolling.
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Now if you're at Harvard, you're already from the class of people who have lawyers on speed dial and you meet people in this kind of loop.  While I was at Columbia, we had a notoriously bad football team coached by Bill Campbell.  Met Steve Jobs at a party, went to work marketing for Apple.  Jumped from there to be CEO of some software startups.  The guy took a job as a crappy football coach and leveraged himself up to be a zillionaire in IT, not knowing the first thing about computers. He was a heck of a salesman though, and he knew who he had to sell to and how to meet them.

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