The lesson here is the same drawn from pg's essay on doing things that don't scale - http://paulgraham.com/ds.html http://paulgraham.com/ds.html. If you were a

The lesson here is the same drawn from pg's essay on doing things that don't scale - http://paulgraham.com/ds.html http://paulgraham.com/ds.html. If you were a multibillion dollar company acting at scale, it would make sense to spend time perfecting the contract. But because you could assess the risk of failure for all elements of the project and felt comfortable with them, there's little need to do the extra due diligence required by a company acting on a larger scale. The majority of a founder's job is making decisions. But the point at which a decision needs to be made to be effective is the point where the founder often has only 10% of the information needed to feel comfortable making it.