Ken Sterling

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150 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 20 Jun

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Living Your Legacy · From Homeless Teen to America's Top Lawyer · 20 Jun 2026 podcast

Maybe there's a couple.

But Instagram wasn't Facebook.

Other people started that, and Mark had the acuity and foresight and, frankly, the balls to buy it.

and outbid Viacom and some other companies, when you really think about it, what he created was so unicorn and so magical, he could write his own ticket.

In the legal community, especially tech, VC, startup world that we play in a lot, a lot of people have this vision of why can't I have what Zuckerberg has?

And that's that he still has a huge chunk of stock, that he's got super stock.

And that's because, again, he had the magical.

sauce that very few, even amazing AI tech companies today have.

And it's interesting because if you look statistically, on average, most founding CEOs of publicly traded companies today own less than 10%, more like 5%, maybe 3% of a company.

If you actually look up what Zuckerberg and his foundation and his family holdings are, it's still very substantial.

So generally, we're on the company side.

We're not on the VC side.

Very, very rarely we'll get involved on the VC side.

Typically, the VCs are represented by big law.

Some of the big firms, Cooley, Oreck, MoFo.

And what we're doing and the way we're approaching these things is that we want to demonstrate value.

We want to demonstrate differentiation play that is unique so that the VC wants to invest.

And that's not a law firm's job.

That's really more of the biz dev and the executives and the principals that have been having that conversation.

Although us being read into that so that when we're interacting with counsel or when we're in meetings with counsel and the principals, that we can understate the value that our client has.

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