[pottertheotter]

All of the horror stories I've heard from others about earnouts involved "companies with real revenue streams, established histories of revenue, and non-tech business models that don't require exponential growth or 'scale'". There's so many ways that even the most "straightforward" of earnout terms becomes non-straightforward.

[gamblor956]

There's so many ways that even the most "straightforward" of earnout terms becomes non-straightforward.

There really isn't, if both parties are active businesses. If you look closely, you'll quickly realize that almost all of the horror stories involve private equity, because they ruin everything.