I was chatting with an early startup team yesterday and they had a reasonably common question, which I will answer here for benefit of others in similar situation: What should one do about equity split in a team of X where one is clearly the junior partner?
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(There is also a gap on that particular question of “CEO vs. any other cofounder” but if an investor talks to co-founding CTO w/o telling CEO that is cool but if they talk to employee CTO they *have transgressed.*)
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A thing about generous employee grants: professional money had definite views regarding the total employee allocation (options pool) and overspending on employee #1 will often result in them advocating for revisiting that decision later.
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first Employee here says “testify”
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