Gall: A $500–$1,000 lawyer threat letter is worth sending to copycats
Jordan Gal · Episode 824 | Crowded Markets, Problem Aware, A Stolen Idea, and... · Mar 17, 2026 · at 42:27
Jordan Gall advises a founder whose collaborator cloned their unlaunched product on the practical utility of early legal warning letters.
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“Now, I do want to just inject into this that a very strongly worded letter from a lawyer can be very effective. It depends on the person. It depends on the situation and what the resources are of the other company, that sort of thing. But a very scary letter from a lawyer can be worth your time and the money that it takes. So I would incorporate that into my general response. Probably, though, it's not going to do anything. It might. So it, for the risk reward for spending 500 or a thousand bucks with a lawyer and putting that out there, the on paper, on the record threat, Can be very effective.”
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