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Quote card: A startup messed up at its foundation cannot be fixed.
“A startup messed up at its foundation cannot be fixed.”

Peter Thiel, Zero to One (2014). He calls it Thiel's law; he means the people, the ownership and the agreements made on day one.

Sort the boring things at the start: who owns what, the right insurance, HMRC registration, written terms. Fixing them later costs far more.

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