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This Week in Startups · 2026-09-03 · 18 min · 3,462 words

Becki DeGraw on spinouts, IP licensing & clean exits | Wilson Sonsini Startup Legal Basics

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Welcome back to this week in Startups. We're doing our startup basic series. What is it? All the basics you need to know to run your company. Legal, accounting. Marketing, uh, you know, you you name it, we go over it here. AI, a new one. This Week in Startups.com slash basics to see the entire library. I'm so lucky to have Becky DeGros from Wilson Cincini. W S G R on my

Team. She's my attorney and she helps me. Explain the basics to you. Welcome back to the program, Becky DeGras. Thank you so much. It's always good to be back. Always fun time to be here. We always have a good time. Uh I wanted to talk to you. I came up with today's topic. Spin out.

Spin out, spin out, spin out. Every week, every two weeks, some founders leaving a company They built something inside the company. The CEO says Wow, that's a very interesting project. They let them work on it for six months, twelve months.

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