Harvard JD-MBA, fifth-year at WSGR — right lawyer, per Hare's account, for a different kind of company
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Aaron Alter was the fifth-year Wilson Sonsini associate — a Harvard JD-MBA on the fast track to partner — assigned to Evolve's routine work, whose refusal to draft stock purchase agreements while a frivolous cease-and-desist hung in the air froze a financing the startup needed to survive the month. Jonathan Hare's account frames it as fit, not competence: Harvard people think like corporate people, and the wild-west judgment a cowboy startup runs on is a different discipline. His side is invited, per the record's standing convention. The episode tells it in full.
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One young entrepreneur a year. Thirty minutes.
Open →succeeded on the account byFirst-year out of Stanford Law, economics undergraduate, the associate who understood that startups need money
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