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		_e on July 1, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Stripe Atlas: the first five years and 20k startup... Good legal documentation is an insurance policy. You never want to use it but it is vital when something happens and you have to refer to it.

htrp on July 1, 2021 [–]

When you're first starting out, you can cut it with chea boilerplate insurance (and legal docs), but at some point you graduate to specialized commercial insurance.

The difference is that you never do this with your legal docs for whatever reason.

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