Comment by unclad5968
4 years ago
It may be relative but it isn't proportionate. A 11B market cap company can field a similarly competent legal department as a 2T market cap company can. I, with 25k, absolutely could not afford the same lawyer someone with 1M.
Have you considered that guy with $1M won't be willing to drop like $50k (2x your net worth) on a lawyer just to squash you?
He must have possibility to earn $100k in process to do that. Well unless you really pissed him off.
If you earn $25k a year and he spends $50k in one year to take your cake. Well unless he really is your competitor that can make use of your defeat he still needs 2 years to get even. Then it probably is not easy money because there is always a risk he will not win. Maybe he can find better ways to earn more money than squashing some $25k guys.
Quite. I run a company with roughly £1.25M turnover per annum, so seem to fit the $1M guy example.
There is no way on earth that I would look at my "value" and compare it with a £50K "value" to decide on my legal "battle-worthiness." It is quite likely that we both have similar (to the same power of 10) insurance for whatever it is we are duking it out over. Anyway this is all a bit circumspect.
Against a company with billions to play with? I'll just keep my head down and crack on and hope not to be noticed 8)
It seems like the theme here is asymmetry in legal firepower & resources between entities.
I do personally feel like that the asymmetry is smaller between elastic and AWS than the say an indie dev and a company with $1M revenue for various reasons.
This doesn't mean that there still isn't a meaningful asymmetry between elastic and AWS.