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[chadwhitacre]

Aaron, the lawyer that saw us through the Gratipocalypse (#193), has now gone in-house for the Symphony Software Foundation (👏 ). He is making introductions to two others. Once I'm able to #411 them, I will follow up here.

[chadwhitacre]

Had a call with @tieguy today, he is getting us an engagement letter. 💃

Still connecting with the other ...

[chadwhitacre]

... looking at a call next week.

[chadwhitacre]

I've removed the legal-undefined repo (it had one issue, which fizzled, and only contained copy/paste that I also have in email). I renamed legal-tor-ekeland back to legal. I've removed Aaron from that repo.

[chadwhitacre]

I've removed Aaron from the [email protected] distribution list.

[chadwhitacre]

Here is Luis' engagement letter (shared here with his explicit consent in private email). It looks good to me. Any objections to moving forward?

[chadwhitacre]

Still connecting with the other ...
... looking at a call next week.

Short call. :-) She referred me to two others. Reaching out to them ...

[chadwhitacre]

Greetings! I run a startup call Gratipay, a payment processor focused on payments from companies to open source software projects. We're looking for advice on financial regulatory compliance, and [] gave me your name. Would any of these times work for an introductory call?

[]

[chadwhitacre]

a startup call Gratipay

Sigh. Fixed in the second mail. :-/

[chadwhitacre]

One call scheduled for next Monday morning.

[chadwhitacre]

Second also for Monday morning. 👍

[chadwhitacre]

Alright! Soooooo ... we can't afford top-shelf fintech lawyers right now. 😶

"Thanks for the call. I look forward to getting in touch again once Gratipay is further along with funding/revenue."

We need to get the growth going again ... but when the time is right we will definitely want to have a financial compliance analysis done (budget: $10k+). What happens from there obviously depends on what that turns up.

[chadwhitacre]

I'm ready to move forward with this ... as soon as I can get near a scanner. ;-)

[chadwhitacre]

Executed, scanned, and sent. 💃

[chadwhitacre]

!m @tieguy

[chadwhitacre]

I've added you to the [email protected] distribution list as well as the legal repo.