Startup Lawyer

Founder & Managing Partner, Optimist Legal · 1 appearance on the record.

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Omeed Tabiei is a corporate and transactional attorney specializing in advising tech and SaaS startups on entity formation, venture fundraising, cap tables, and M&A exits. Prior to founding the boutique firm Optimist Legal, he worked in-house on corporate legal transactions at Virgin Hyperloop One and launched his own software startups.

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6 assertions · 1 insight · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 6 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 4 are resolved, and 2 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

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Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported

Omeed Tabiei: Startup Formation Costs $2,500 via Lawyers or $800 via Clerky

“2500 bucks. That's what it costs to get it from a lawyer. Or you could go to Clerky and get it for like 800.”

Startup Lawyer Mar 10, 2026 ▶ 16:29 Fred Wilson Quoted $50K, Paid Under $5K - Now Lawyers Are Panicking

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What they said7 Episodes1

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Assertion Partly supported

Fred Wilson Used AI on Seed Deal After $50K Legal Quote

“The lawyers quoted him 50,000 dollars, and he was like, I think you should do it for less than five, and when they said no, he took his entire history of his closing binders, uploaded them into his, ah, you know, AI knowledge base, and had the AI essentially f…”

Startup Lawyer Mar 10, 2026 ▶ 1:00 Fred Wilson Quoted $50K, Paid Under $5K - Now Lawyers Are Panicking

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Omeed Tabiei: AI Gave Client Completely Wrong QSBS Advice in Buyout

“We were just advising a client on a buyout yesterday and the AI is just like feeding him completely wrong information about qualified small business stock. And how to structure the deal, which is actually like a huge pain as a lawyer when people, you know, bri…”

Startup Lawyer Mar 10, 2026 ▶ 2:06 Fred Wilson Quoted $50K, Paid Under $5K - Now Lawyers Are Panicking

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Omeed Tabiei: YC SAFEs Erased Lawyers From Pre-Seed Funding Rounds

“I think that lawyers have been removed from the angel pre-seed you know, since quite a long time now. You know, for those 250,000 dollar, 500,000 dollar rounds, most founders, when I talk to them, they're like, I don't think I need a lawyer. I just use this Y …”

Startup Lawyer Mar 10, 2026 ▶ 5:10 Fred Wilson Quoted $50K, Paid Under $5K - Now Lawyers Are Panicking

Assertion Partly supported

Omeed Tabiei: 18-Year-Old YC Founders Faced Backlash Over Open-Source Violations

“There were these founders that had been admitted to Y Combinator. It was like these two 18 year old kids. And essentially they had forked some technology, some AI wrapper essentially, and they didn't read the source licensing for the code. And essentially they…”

Startup Lawyer Mar 10, 2026 ▶ 11:47 Fred Wilson Quoted $50K, Paid Under $5K - Now Lawyers Are Panicking

Insight

Omeed Tabiei: Venture Debt Fits Proven Unit Economics, Equity Fits Uncertainty

“Well, I think venture debt. Or any sort of debt works really well when you figured out your unit economics around customer acquisition. If you haven't necessarily figured out your unit economics around customer acquisition, I think it can be a bit daunting for…”

Startup Lawyer Mar 10, 2026 ▶ 26:20 Fred Wilson Quoted $50K, Paid Under $5K - Now Lawyers Are Panicking

Assertion Partly supported

Omeed Tabiei: Pension Fund Tax Liabilities Prevent VCs From Investing in LLCs

“The two primary reasons are most VC funds have pension funds, and those pension funds have tax liabilities that LLCs impact, and so VC funds cannot risk impacting their VC fund LPs.”

Startup Lawyer Mar 10, 2026 ▶ 21:56 Fred Wilson Quoted $50K, Paid Under $5K - Now Lawyers Are Panicking

Assertion Supported

Omeed Tabiei: Startup Formation Costs $2,500 via Lawyers or $800 via Clerky

“2500 bucks. That's what it costs to get it from a lawyer. Or you could go to Clerky and get it for like 800.”

Startup Lawyer Mar 10, 2026 ▶ 16:29 Fred Wilson Quoted $50K, Paid Under $5K - Now Lawyers Are Panicking

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
Fred Wilson Quoted $50K, Paid Under $5K - Now Lawyers Are Panicking	Mar 10, 2026	18m

Startup Lawyer

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