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This 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 act
by fakedang 6y ago
This 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.