Lulu Cheng Meservey, Shopify board member and communications strategist, discusses deterrence and establishing second-strike capability against bad-faith actors.
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“Jess and her very strong team have decided that they're going to fight it every single time, and in the short term, super expensive, huge Huge pain. Again, you take the pain up front so that you don't have to live with chronic pain for the rest of your life. You get the surgery now so that you don't have to deal with it, and now Shopify gets no patent rules. Zero. Zero.”
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