Never, Ever Work for Free… Unless
7 min readJul 18, 2019
A few months ago, I wrote a nuanced post detailing the phenomenon of startups who get people to work for them for free. In How To Get Free Labor for Your Startup, I walked through the typical ways that founders delay proper compensation in the early days to give their startup some much-needed runway.
Working for free is a common practice and even a necessary one at that. Most truly new ideas need true…