Buhrdorf: Founders should never hire a lawyer for company formation
Ross Buhrdorf · Want $100m in revenue? Copy these lessons from ZenBusiness CEO Ross Buhrdorf · May 21, 2024 · at 10:53
ZenBusiness CEO Ross Buhrdorf discusses the company's automated formation product compared to traditional legal services.
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“You know, when you do a formation, people come to me and say, hey, should I use a lawyer to do a formation? I say, absolutely not. Not only will they do it wrong because they don't do 1000 of thousands of these like we do, we make damn sure we do it right, have AI, so we do a great job on that.”
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