It’s no longer enough to offer a better mousetrap. If it creates unexpected environmental, social, public health or governance related externalities, or if it potentially violates existing laws or regulations, or if it is offensive or threatening to a community - then it’s a doomed mousetrap, no matter how well it works.
August 02, 2021 at 02:26 PM
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At some point, every corporate lawyer has heard the old trope: the legal department – it’s where good ideas go to die.
In the popular imagination, the lawyer is always the most risk averse person in the room; the one who can be counted on to think of all the ways a big new idea could go wrong; the one who sees risk around every corner; the one who takes a sharp, clean, bright concept and buries it under disclaimers.
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