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Ask PG: What Counts as a Founder in the App?
8 points by divia 4 days ago | 3 comments
My team has one team member who wrote a bunch (maybe 1/3?) of the code we have so far and who is very into the idea of working on the startup with us, but who can't work on it very much now because he has a job that he isn't ready to leave. He definitely can't move to California, but he wants to do as much as he has time to on nights and weekends. He will have have equity. My question is, for the purpose of questions on the application, is he considered a founder?



4 points by pg 4 days ago | link
A founder is someone with significant equity.

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1 point by dcurtis 4 days ago | link
Do you consider someone who receives significant equity after the company formation a founder? For example, employee number 3 or 4 or 5?

This has nothing to do with the application, just a question of opinion.

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2 points by alaskamiller 4 days ago | link
That's dependent on the original founding team. Reddit has 4 founders as far as they're concerned, Aaron Swartz seems to be written out of their corporate history.

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