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:(a) it is ''very'' easy to impress a [[general counsel]] with any [[technology]] more sophisticated than a pop-up toaster — all she does is say, “it runs on [[blockchain]]”; | :(a) it is ''very'' easy to impress a [[general counsel]] with any [[technology]] more sophisticated than a pop-up toaster — all she does is say, “it runs on [[blockchain]]”; | ||
:(b) the potential revenue, if she can sell her WordPress installation to any significant participant in the [[financial services]] industry is out of all proportion to the value the software could possibly deliver, but this doesn’t matter as long as the [[general counsel]] thinks it runs on [[blockchain]] and the [[RAG status]] for innovation in the ManCo [[deck]] is therefore green, since it will be the poor lawyers who will get it in the neck when it turns out to be utterly useless; | :(b) the potential revenue, if she can sell her WordPress installation to any significant participant in the [[financial services]] industry is out of all proportion to the value the software could possibly deliver, but this doesn’t matter as long as the [[general counsel]] thinks it runs on [[blockchain]] and the [[RAG status]] for innovation in the ManCo [[deck]] is therefore green, since it will be the poor lawyers who will get it in the neck when it turns out to be utterly useless; | ||
:(c) almost all [[ | :(c) almost all [[legaltech]] is just as ropey, being either hastily cobbled PHP that runs on top of Google Docs; or hastily cobbled-together javascript that runs on top of a generic TensorFlow [[neural network]], so there is a level chance no-one will notice it won’t work anyway. | ||
Before she can say, “[[software as a service]]” he’ll be rocking brush-cotton check shirts, living out of a ''WeWork'' broom cupboard in Shoreditch while angling for a place in Fuse and doing her own [[LinkedIn]] | Before she can say, “[[software as a service]]” he’ll be rocking brush-cotton check shirts, living out of a ''WeWork'' broom cupboard in Shoreditch while angling for a place in Fuse and doing her own [[LinkedIn]] webcasts to the rapturous acclaim of ''other'' [[legaltech]] entrepreneurs. | ||
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