This business scenario is not that unusual. The package is whatever you can negotiate. Your value as a no-longer-essential founder does not necessarily dimini

This business scenario is not that unusual. The package is whatever you can negotiate. Your value as a no-longer-essential founder does not necessarily diminish once you are no longer a single-point-of-failure. Some founders are also superior community leaders. Doug Cutting (founder of Hadoop, Lucene, now at Cloudera) comes to mind.