Ghibli: Founders must maintain continuous full ownership of code during development
Gil Ghibli · Why he regrets selling 30% equity in $200k pre seed round · Jan 14, 2023 · at 11:15
Gil Ghibli, founder of Run of Show, shares lessons learned after experiencing severe collaboration and code access issues with an offshore engineering team.
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“That as a business owner that hires a software engineer, first and foremost, you have to have full control of the code. You have to have full access and ownership. Of every single line of code that the engineers are writing never, you know, trust you know, an engineer to eventually pass on the access to a code and product and software that you're paying for in the development.”
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