You Are Never Going to Build Value When a Corporation Holds the Power Over Your Work
You Are Never Going to Build Value When a Corporation Holds the Power Over Your Work
You Are Never Going to Build Value When a Corporation Holds the Power Over Your Work
Why handing your type to a big platform caps its value, and what ownership can do instead.
Why handing your type to a big platform caps its value, and what ownership can do instead.
Why handing your type to a big platform caps its value, and what ownership can do instead.
Category:
Foundries
Author:
Alex Haigh
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3 mins
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Yes, You Read That Right
Yes, You Read That Right
Yes, You Read That Right
Right now you are basing your entire business model and the future of your career on a third-party platform that does not give a fuck about you. This sounds blunt, because it’s from someone who has been there. Someone who had to issue multiple international lawsuits just to tackle unlicensed usage. Why? Because the big publicly traded companies do not care about foundries. They care about shareholders, share price and the board. Full stop. To them, you are not even a consideration, other than in their fluffy marketing copy that may get you featured once every three years.
Right now you are basing your entire business model and the future of your career on a third-party platform that does not give a fuck about you. This sounds blunt, because it’s from someone who has been there. Someone who had to issue multiple international lawsuits just to tackle unlicensed usage. Why? Because the big publicly traded companies do not care about foundries. They care about shareholders, share price and the board. Full stop. To them, you are not even a consideration, other than in their fluffy marketing copy that may get you featured once every three years.
Right now you are basing your entire business model and the future of your career on a third-party platform that does not give a fuck about you. This sounds blunt, because it’s from someone who has been there. Someone who had to issue multiple international lawsuits just to tackle unlicensed usage. Why? Because the big publicly traded companies do not care about foundries. They care about shareholders, share price and the board. Full stop. To them, you are not even a consideration, other than in their fluffy marketing copy that may get you featured once every three years.
The Lowball Offer
The Lowball Offer
The Lowball Offer
At best you may get an acquisition offer with a lowball 1.7x multiple on your annual revenue, for years of your own hard work. Yes, years. In plain English, that’s nothing. Nothing, when a corporation can leverage the value of your work 20 to 50x.
At best you may get an acquisition offer with a lowball 1.7x multiple on your annual revenue, for years of your own hard work. Yes, years. In plain English, that’s nothing. Nothing, when a corporation can leverage the value of your work 20 to 50x.
At best you may get an acquisition offer with a lowball 1.7x multiple on your annual revenue, for years of your own hard work. Yes, years. In plain English, that’s nothing. Nothing, when a corporation can leverage the value of your work 20 to 50x.
Ownership Is Where the Value Lives
Ownership Is Where the Value Lives
Ownership Is Where the Value Lives
IP value comes from ownership, careful planning, strategy and continual leverage, not powerless submission to corporations. Right now you may be sitting on a contract that not only stuffs you, but also offers you absolutely no future. I can help you transform that. I’m a designer too, who has fought the battles you don’t have to, and I helped take one designer to 7-figure revenue without taking 75% in royalties like the major platforms do.
IP value comes from ownership, careful planning, strategy and continual leverage, not powerless submission to corporations. Right now you may be sitting on a contract that not only stuffs you, but also offers you absolutely no future. I can help you transform that. I’m a designer too, who has fought the battles you don’t have to, and I helped take one designer to 7-figure revenue without taking 75% in royalties like the major platforms do.
IP value comes from ownership, careful planning, strategy and continual leverage, not powerless submission to corporations. Right now you may be sitting on a contract that not only stuffs you, but also offers you absolutely no future. I can help you transform that. I’m a designer too, who has fought the battles you don’t have to, and I helped take one designer to 7-figure revenue without taking 75% in royalties like the major platforms do.
Written by Alex Haigh. An actual human.
The opinions are mine, so are the typos.
Written by Alex Haigh. An actual human.
The opinions are mine, so are the typos.
Written by Alex Haigh. An actual human.
The opinions are mine, so are the typos.
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