1) it doesn’t matter and really no one cares. Don’t wring your metaphorical hands over it too much, getting CxO title matters a lot more and even that doesn’t m

1) it doesn’t matter and really no one cares. Don’t wring your metaphorical hands over it too much, getting CxO title matters a lot more and even that doesn’t mean a thing but it at least makes it a little more painful to slot someone in above you. 2) if you’re not around when the incorporation docs are drawn up and filling out an 83b you’re not a founding anything. Just an early hire, and there’s nothing wrong with that, but don’t let yourself get into something that feels bigger than it is. 3) Equity doesn’t necessarily track with being early. There’s a correlation of course, but you can have someone join a startup right out of school and then not receive “significant” equity relative to the rest of the team if they’re not brining nearly as much upside to the newly formed company as an engineer with 20 years of domain experience who joins 3-6 months later. 4) I’d read it as the founders being non-technical and/or more like investors than operators. Be cognizant of that as you’re talking to them.