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Jun
28

ConnectU and What May Have Been

Posted by: Jim Corbett | Comments (0)

ConnectU+Facebook=ScrewU

Oral agreements and ConnectU’s Outsourcing Woes

perpetrator of the biggest legal screw job of all timeI’m sure everyone who is reading this is aware of and has made more than a few oral agreements in their life with no problems at all. Not the case when 3 Harvard students, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss and Divya Narendra, needed to outsource some coding to fellow Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg to help them build a social-networking site. As it turns out not having a written contract with a no compete clause ended up being a $15,000,000,000 mistake.

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