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How does one take over a co-founder role? Is it a job title now? If he took over for you he didn’t actually found the company, right? I’m not asking this sarca
by SmellTheGlove 3y ago
How does one take over a co-founder role? Is it a job title now? If he took over for you he didn’t actually found the company, right?
I’m not asking this sarcastically. Trying to understand how this works because I’ve always taken “co-founder” to mean “I was one of the people that started this company from day 1”
- morgante 3y agoThe early stages of many companies are pretty nebulous as you're exploring different ideas/positioning and building the basics. It's reasonable that someone joining <1 year in would be considered a co-founder if they had founder-level commitment.
- htrp 3y agodo you get the $ or the equity as well?
- datavirtue 3y agoYou can buy the "co-founder" title. That's how Elon Musk is associated with Tesla.
- codezero 3y agoIn this context, Ravi who became cofounder of Heap certainly didn't take that route. He was and is fantastic and if anything I'm surprised Airplane wasn't even more successful because of his involvement. I don't have all the early context, but my understanding (vaguely) is that Heap went through two different incubators, and after one Ravi came on to be cofounder at YC where Heap raised its seed round.