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As you have described it, why would you call him "co-founder"? I would call him "early employee".

• unsurecofounder 5y ago
  I've been under the impression that because I can't pay salary and need to compensate him in equity pre-funding that he'd be a co-founder of the venture with me instead of an early employee. Am I wrong?
  • relaunched 5y ago
    No. You are correct.
  • sdevonoes 5y ago
    You're probably more right than me. My point is a semantical one: a co-founder is someone that bootstraps everything. Early employees helps in the bootstraping later on. But in a practical sense I'm probably wrong; sorry for the noise.