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Easy. If you got stock when the company was formed, you're a co-founder. Anyone who joins after day 1 (and before day .. 180?) is an early employee.
by __d 6y ago
Easy. If you got stock when the company was formed, you're a co-founder.
Anyone who joins after day 1 (and before day .. 180?) is an early employee.
- k__ 6y agoIs it that easy? If the company pivots around for some time it could very well be that some early employees are doing co-founder work.
- rat9988 6y agoIt still wouldn't make them co-founder. I'm not sure there is such a thing as co-founder exlcusive work.
- tedmiston 6y agoIt's definitely not that easy. There are so many messier cases in the real world, like companies that raise a seed, then burn through it too fast only to essentially start over with a new "seed" and new "co-founders" down the road...
- fakedang 6y agoThis is such a flawed way to hand out co-founder titles. Most companies start off as tech companies, but primarily rely on a biz dev and operations team to actually generate value. You'd likely not be focusing on those areas in the beginning, yet they are integral aspects of your business. Rewarding the people in charge of those divisions with a fancier title and consequently much more responsibility is the right way to go.
- __d 6y agoI agree with everything you have said. But the implication that people should be called a "co-founder" just because they're important to the growth of the business makes no sense. You should absolitely hand out VP of X, CxO, etc, titles (and decent slabs of equity) as deserved, but "founder" has a meaning, and if you're not actually there at the founding, calling yourself or your coworkers one is basically misleading.