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According to the linked story at the time he said "so sue me" he had made ~$32k gross revenue and had no employees. He made his $400k and hired the employee mu

• ufmace 13y ago
  He never actually said "so sue me", though. He was told, probably correctly, that at his size, there's no point in getting a perfect contract that precisely covers what happens in every one in a million possibility to the satisfaction of every party. Ignore the rare possibilities of the contract and just do the work, knowing that if you hit one of those rare possibilities and violate it, then their only real recourse is to sue you, which probably costs more than it's worth. It's about being aware that you can say "so sue me" instead of worrying about covering every risk in the contract.
  • comrade_ogilvy 13y ago
    Right. An honest, competent, and communicative contractor will not prompt a revenge lawsuit, because even if things go wrong, they will not blow up into 100k+ problems without the client knowing the risks of continuing down that road. Unless you cause an egregious 50k+ of damage, suing is probably idiotic. And how can that even happen? The client would/should refuse to make the last payment if the work sucks. ("So sue me" works in both directions.) So it has to be a nearly complete fail for suing to make much sense. It could be possible to run across a very incompetent executive who is desperate for a scapegoat...but that is probably rare. Such a suit is unlikely to see the inside of a courtroom, because it is a delaying tactic of an executive whose career is probably already circling the drain.