> Can you provide a citation? I've spent five minutes on Google and all results indicate the opposite, that the title "founder" holds no legal meaning or standi

> Can you provide a citation? I've spent five minutes on Google and all results indicate the opposite, that the title "founder" holds no legal meaning or standing. It's called registering your company? It varies from state to state and country to country. > It does look like you need an agreement with the board and through shareholders to hold the title (and the title would be helpful in some situations), but that the title itself is meaningless from a legal definition. Yes. I guess the founder is not a "legal definition". But when you ( and your cofounders ) legally register the company, you are the founder. Certainly it's not simply what others say it is. If you say I'm the founder of microsoft, it doesn't make it so. We can see who legally founded ( aka registered ) the company.