• Matthew Lopez: General Counsel Solutions to Scaling Startups

  • Jan 4 2024
  • Duración: 47 m
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Matthew Lopez: General Counsel Solutions to Scaling Startups

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  • Listen to the latest episode of "The Founder's Sandbox", where Brenda tackles the topic of starting discussions with your clients on setting up the board. Brenda speaks with Matthew Lopez, managing director of Wolf and Snow, about board creation. Matthew Lopez is the Managing Director of Wolf and Snow, the first national firm providing fractional General Counsel services to founders. After years as in house counsel, Matthew wanted to serve more than one client at a time. He started the firm over 3 years ago and began with 3 clients and now serves from the practice of Wolf and Snow 30-40 clients spanning the US and international with a full-service legal services including paralegal and services that include connections to potential clients, partners, investors and talent. Wolf and Snow works with companies with a minimum of $1 mn in recurring revenue. Other Resources mentioned in this podcast: Strategic Board Formation key steps for startup growth https://www.clerky.com https://carta.com/ Learn more about Matthew Lopez, and Wolf and Snow: mlopez@wolfandsnow.com Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthewtlopez/ Episode Transcription 00:04 Welcome back to the Founder's Sandbox. The Founder's Sandbox is a podcast now in its second season. The monthly podcast reaches entrepreneurs and business owners. 00:33 professional service providers who learn and share about building resilient, scalable, and sustainable businesses with great corporate governance. I'm Brenda McCabe, your host on the Founder's Sandbox. My mission when working with founders is very simple. I want to assist the entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs in building scalable, well-governed, and resilient businesses. On the Founder's Sandbox podcast. 01:02 I invite guests who are also founders, business owners, and corporate directors and professional service providers who like me want to use the power of the small, medium, or even large enterprise to create change for a better world. Each of my guests tells a story that include topics around resilience, purpose-driven, enterprises, and sustainable growth. 01:30 And my goal with the Founder Sandbox is to provide a fun sandbox environment where we can equip one startup founder at a time to build a better world through great corporate governance. Today, my guest is Matthew Lopez. He's Managing Director at Wolf & Snow. And Matthew and I are going to talk about creative and innovative 01:58 General Counsel Solutions to Scaling Startups. Thank you, Matthew, for joining me today. I'm happy to be here. Thank you for having me, Brenda. And I'm gonna call you Matthew because we've always called each other. I don't like short names. I like Matthews. So Matthew Lopez is creative to the extent that not only is he an entrepreneur, but he provides fractional general counsel services. 02:28 and connections to potential clients, partners, investors, and talent to founders with over $1 million in recurring revenue. You know, when I first started working, we find each other in many events where there are startup companies, we found that we both like to work on scaling companies. 02:57 And we'll talk a bit more in this podcast today. We know also, Matthew, that there's not one recipe to scale a company, is there? No, there's, in fact, I think that you actually have to find your unique answer to how you're gonna scale your company, because if you're taking a playbook from someone else, it's not gonna fit you perfectly. It doesn't mean that you can't look at other people's playbooks. 03:24 to be able to kind of be like, hey, I want to take a little bit from over here, some of this and take inspiration from stuff. But if you're just copying other people's playbooks, it's probably not going to end as well as you think it's going to. Super. And you know, you've been an in-house counsel for most of your career. And it was about three years ago that you struck out on your own and you founded your firm. 03:53 which is very creative, right? Offering fractional general counsel services to, again, startups that are over $1 million in recurring revenues. So at any one time, you have 30 to 40 customers, US-based and international. So without, you know, taking, dismeriting your go-to-market strategy, I'd like you to share. 04:22 with my listeners how you also became creative and created your own company. Yeah. So it kind of started off with, I kind of got burnt out doing one company. And so I decided, Hey, I wanted to work with like three to five companies, uh, three to five quickly turned into like 10 and I had to hire someone to help me with it. And I realized that I really liked. 04:47 the fractional work. I really enjoyed being able to help companies at that earlier stage and be able to help scale them. And eventually it started to turn into more. And now we're at 30 to 40 and we've scaled up to being the first fractional legal department in the United States. So we actually plug into these companies from GC all ...
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