ganjaman a écrit :
https://snowboardmag.com/stories/interviews/the-reluctant-super-pro-a-ke…
Un papier fort intéressant sur les agents, celui de KR94 notamment…
Gets much more interesting when you got both sides of the coin… Even though there’s only one side to this one, lol…
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« I felt I needed to step in here and say something. Most of you on here know me, and know where I work.
Kevin is bitter and has had problems which I won’t care to discuss out of respect for someone that has battled inner demons in life. What I will tell you is that he never had equity in The Familie, and when Steve “PARTNERED” with WMG, Kevin wasn’t owed anything. I “SOLD” my company to The Familie prior to the WMG merger I got a check as well as a job that I’m still doing 14 years later.
In those 14 years we have had clients come and go, but the vast majority have stayed, obviously they leave when they retire, and some leave for what they consider greener pastures. What I can tell you is that in those 14 years I have seen Steve put his clients first, before himself or his family for that matter. On more than one occasion, I have seen him save careers much like what he did with Kenny earlier this year.
A lot of you are criticizing Steve, WMG, and when you do that, you blanket the “agent” term, so you are in effect disrespecting all of us in that field. I have had only a couple of rough times with clients which aren’t enjoyable as I take it very personally. I see some comments saying that we are just a good ole boy network of ex-riders without any contract law experience, which I find interesting, and misinformed. The fact is that we have on staff some of the finest attorneys in the world. Yes, it is true I have not personally been to law school, but my job isn’t to finalize the legal verbiage in the agreement. Do you actually think a company with 600+ employees doesn’t have fantastic attorneys. And, for the record after reading thousands of agreements over the course of 15 years I have a pretty good understanding of contract law. Experience does count for something!
If you want to know what we do for our clients why don’t you ask some of them for yourself. I have clients that I’ve been representing for 15 years already and I’m sure they would set you straight on the advantages to having someone in their corner battling it out for them. Steve has clients he has had for nearly 20 years. You don’t have longevity like that by screwing people over, whether in this business or any other. Some companies in the industries we work within don’t like us, and that’s because if the athlete has proper representation it is difficult for them to take advantage of that athlete. There are other major companies within action sports as a whole that have changed their agreements due to us showing them why their agreements were unfair.
To Mr. UpTiTe, again your statement is false in many ways, especially being directed our way. I might agree with you about a single individual doing this without any law school and no support staff, but that isn’t the case with us. Also, I can tell you with the amount of effort it takes to compete at the highest level a rider cannot do this alone. You must have help or you will leave millions on the table and not have favorable terms in your agreements. I can give you several more reasons but this should suffice.
I will close with this, there are two side to almost every story except for when there isn’t, and in this case there isn’t.
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