Agreed completely. And perhaps it helps to think of the "invested value" of the company as a form of financial and human capital invested so far - when you hir

Agreed completely. And perhaps it helps to think of the "invested value" of the company as a form of financial and human capital invested so far - when you hire those two people you have invested maybe a year of work. A year later you have invested two years, and so have they! If you were all panning for gold (not terrible analogy for searching product market fit) then while you share the gold, you have doubled your chances