Even CEOs Get Fired: An Engaging Look at How Top Entrepreneurs and Execs Protect Themselves and How You Can Too

Jotham Stein is a Silicon Valley employment lawyer who represents entrepreneurs, C-Suite executives, board members, and senior managers, as well as less senior employees at companies of every size and type. In Even CEOs Get Fired, Jotham walks readers through the best practices, common pitfalls, and sky's-the-limit possibilities in the various stages of a career - from getting hired, to surviving an employer's changes in control, to a voluntarily exit... to getting fired.

Each chapter focuses on a particular issue, mixing straightforward actionable advice with engaging fictional stories, based on real-life scenarios Jotham has seen in his practice. Readers starting out in their careers, or considering jumping into entrepreneurship, will learn how to negotiate like a CEO, regardless of their position. Those already in the C-Suite will appreciate his explanation of which documents and clauses really matter in complex employment agreements, and how to maximize your leverage by focusing on the bottom line.

Even CEOs Get Fired is the ultimate guide to talking money, an essential tool for anyone moving up in business.

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Even CEOs Get Fired: An Engaging Look at How Top Entrepreneurs and Execs Protect Themselves and How You Can Too

Jotham Stein is a Silicon Valley employment lawyer who represents entrepreneurs, C-Suite executives, board members, and senior managers, as well as less senior employees at companies of every size and type. In Even CEOs Get Fired, Jotham walks readers through the best practices, common pitfalls, and sky's-the-limit possibilities in the various stages of a career - from getting hired, to surviving an employer's changes in control, to a voluntarily exit... to getting fired.

Each chapter focuses on a particular issue, mixing straightforward actionable advice with engaging fictional stories, based on real-life scenarios Jotham has seen in his practice. Readers starting out in their careers, or considering jumping into entrepreneurship, will learn how to negotiate like a CEO, regardless of their position. Those already in the C-Suite will appreciate his explanation of which documents and clauses really matter in complex employment agreements, and how to maximize your leverage by focusing on the bottom line.

Even CEOs Get Fired is the ultimate guide to talking money, an essential tool for anyone moving up in business.

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Even CEOs Get Fired: An Engaging Look at How Top Entrepreneurs and Execs Protect Themselves and How You Can Too

Even CEOs Get Fired: An Engaging Look at How Top Entrepreneurs and Execs Protect Themselves and How You Can Too

by Jotham S Stein
Even CEOs Get Fired: An Engaging Look at How Top Entrepreneurs and Execs Protect Themselves and How You Can Too

Even CEOs Get Fired: An Engaging Look at How Top Entrepreneurs and Execs Protect Themselves and How You Can Too

by Jotham S Stein

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Overview

Jotham Stein is a Silicon Valley employment lawyer who represents entrepreneurs, C-Suite executives, board members, and senior managers, as well as less senior employees at companies of every size and type. In Even CEOs Get Fired, Jotham walks readers through the best practices, common pitfalls, and sky's-the-limit possibilities in the various stages of a career - from getting hired, to surviving an employer's changes in control, to a voluntarily exit... to getting fired.

Each chapter focuses on a particular issue, mixing straightforward actionable advice with engaging fictional stories, based on real-life scenarios Jotham has seen in his practice. Readers starting out in their careers, or considering jumping into entrepreneurship, will learn how to negotiate like a CEO, regardless of their position. Those already in the C-Suite will appreciate his explanation of which documents and clauses really matter in complex employment agreements, and how to maximize your leverage by focusing on the bottom line.

Even CEOs Get Fired is the ultimate guide to talking money, an essential tool for anyone moving up in business.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781895131512
Publisher: Political Animal Press
Publication date: 11/20/2020
Pages: 336
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Jotham S. Stein is the principal of the Law Offices of Jotham S. Stein P.C., in Palo Alto, California, and St. Charles, Illinois (www.jotham.com). For more than twenty years, his law firm has represented entrepreneurs, C-Suite executives, board members, and senior managers, as well as less senior employees of all types and size companies. Firm attorneys work on employment agreements, separation agreements, M&A agreements, change in control agreements, stock option agreements, and much more. Jotham is a graduate of Stanford Law School and Princeton University. He is admitted to practice in California, Illinois, New York, Colorado and the District of Columbia as well as the United States Supreme Court, United States Courts of Appeals for the Seventh, Ninth, and District of Columbia Circuits and several United States District Courts. He has also served as part-time General Counsel of a high-technology Silicon Valley company. He is the author of the legal textbook and professional guide: Executive Employment Law: Protecting Executives, Entrepreneurs and Employees (first published by Oxford University Press, now in its seventh edition, with Lexis/Nexis). In Even CEOs Get Fired, Jotham brings this wealth of experience to a general audience. The book is an engaging read meant for everyone. It provides colorful detail and great insight regarding what happens at the top of major companies, businesses, and corporations. It also provides direct and invaluable advice to people at every level of the corporate world, helping them to succeed there and protect themselves.

Table of Contents

Contents

Introduction - Even CEOs Get Fired 1

The Arena 10

Entrepreneurs, Executives, Founders &

Company Decisionmakers 27

You and Your Advisors 49

Documents to Love & Hate 59

More Documents to Love & Hate 80

Big Picture Strategies 106

The Professional Prenuptial Agreement 123

Key Terms for Your Professional Prenuptial Agreement 146

Now You're in the Game 180

Changes in Control 196

The Law 228

Gone, Goodbye 241

Negotiating the Separation Agreement 258

Reincarnation - What About Running ...? 287

To Compete or Not to Compete 300

Going International 319

Final Things to Remember 329

Afterword - Thanks 333

List of Entrepreneur and Executive Stories

How Much Do They Want You? 10

He Hates You and He'll Soon Control the Board 13

The Dynamo and the Chief Financial Officer 18

Maybe I'll Clean House? 27

Both Ends of the Spectrum 32

Strategics and Venture Capitalists 43

Can I Refer My CEO to You? 49

It's Not Your Company Any More 51

Rock Solid 59

Shortchanged 64

The IPO 67

What Did You Say? 75

Summit Lee! 80

What are the Liquidation Preferences? 85

It Hurts 88

It's Crooked 91

It's a Voting Agreement 97

I Just Got Fired 106

What Airline Do You Fly? 112

Praveen and Henley 116

No Accelerated Vesting? 123

0-2 127

Not Good Enough 133

Powerless 139

Your Offer Letter Sucks! 146

Thinking About Moving Companies 152

They Can Take Back Money They Already Paid Me? 159

They Cheat Me, But I Do OK 162

I Want to Diversify 168

Top of the World 180

Sdrabat Ale House 184

Special Projects 186

Will They or Won't They Convert? 196

The Rocket Ship 202

Recipe for a Dispute 208

Bare As .... 212

You Can't Teach People What They Need to Learn for Themselves 217

Brookster & the Vulture Capitalist 221

The Answer is Still No 228

Absorbed? 231

What are My Rights? 234

What Do You Want to Work There For? 241

You're Done! 251

Erin 258

Erin² 261

Sharif 264

Erin³ 266

Those Other Considerations 271

Mateo 274

Erin⁴ 278

Erin⁵ 282

Billy Ball 287

Downtime Might Not Be Too Long 291

The Interview 295

Uh Oh 300

The Aggressive Counterpunch 309

Is That So? 319

Taxes Anyone? 322

Long Live King Willem-Alexander Claus George Ferdinand! 326

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