May. 17.

Valley Vocab: To get Winklevied

 

To get Winklevied:  When someone who was only tangentially involved in your startup sues you for stock after you’re successful.

 

Your former roommate’s brother wants 25% of the company because he helped design the original graphic?  Congrats, you just got Winklevied.  (Even in Silicon Valley, victory has a thousand fathers.)


Update: a source tells us that to get Winklevied can actually mean you were the victim–your evil co-founder stole the company from you.  Thoughts?  We thought Winklevied only carried sore-loser connotations, but correct us if we’re wrong.

 

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