SALEHPOUR LEGAL 

Just wrapped up two sessions this week—one for the Women in Tech Global Conference on the legally compliant use of AI and another with the Innovation Group on the data privacy pitfalls hitting businesses right now. Three key takeaways for founders and business owners: 1️⃣ 'The Algorithm did it' is not a legal defense. Whether it’s ADMT rules or new transparency laws, you must be able to explain how your AI makes decisions and provide clear notice and opt-outs. 2️⃣ Privacy

Speed is a vanity metric if your foundation is cracked. Many teams are so focused on the speed of their GTM that they ignore the structural integrity of their foundation. You don’t scale just by working harder. You scale by removing the friction of legal debt before it compounds. If you build and launch a non-compliant product, you haven’t built a ladder. You've built a ceiling. You have nowhere to go but down. Reflection: Are you building a product that is engineered to

Many founders and business owners treat legal as a fire extinguisher. They only call when something is burning and that’s a recipe for disaster. Case in point: I recently saw a startup forced to rebuild an entire platform because they didn’t have the proper data and intellectual property rights in their foundation. What would have been a few hours of investment in legal architecture upfront became a six-figure technical nightmare just as they were getting traction and prepa