I work as a SWE for a big tech company that is a household name. A few friends and I have an idea for a startup that we’d like to pursue in the evenings/weekends, but my contract says that I cannot own above a certain % of equity in another company, and I interpret certain parts of it to mean that I cannot moonshine, ie work on side projects. * The startup is in a totally unrelated field to my company with 0 overlap. How serious is this? If the startup takes off and I quit my job, could I be in legal trouble? To what extent will my company care anyway? Is there any company that doesn’t disallow moonshining? Would it be reallt stupid to go forward and work on this startup anyway?
If you work for a big tech company, I am sure you can afford $160/hour legal advice on Avvo. I may not answer your question but can say that paying the lawyer before anything goes wrong is always cheaper than paying when you are in trouble.
Break the rules
That’s moonlighting. It’s moonshining if you’re making booze.
Moonshining? 😂😂😂 I’ll take some
Moon shining l😂
> I work as a SWE for a big tech company that is a household name. Yeah I know. It's Uber.
Lol my bad, totally mixed up moonshining and moonlighting 😂😂😂 thanks for the replies everyone
People do this, it’s reality. Don’t use the same PC , keep it separate. Keep apps separate, everything separate. Phones separate. Worse they can do is fire you then, but not sue you.
all they can do is fire you, unless they can show you used proprietary information/tools or company time to work on the startup