Re: Moral of the story...
Don't name a company after yourself and sell it off. Require that as a condition of having the name, they must keep you on salary at $$$$ every year.
There's a right way and a wrong way to name a company after yourself.
- WRONG* - sell your name to the company for a 1 time fee
- RIGHT - lease your name to the company, with a "greater of x value or 0.01% of revenue", and with clauses for additional bonuses when the company is sold off.
(*) Unless it is a humongously large price - like $500mill**.
(**) Tho I guess in 1991, $9mill was a humongously large price for a security firm like McAfee.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
