{"id":5503,"date":"2020-06-25T00:26:18","date_gmt":"2020-06-25T00:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/startupsanonymous.com\/?p=5503"},"modified":"2020-06-29T21:45:38","modified_gmt":"2020-06-29T21:45:38","slug":"can-i-dilute-my-cofounders-equity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/startupsanonymous.com\/question\/can-i-dilute-my-cofounders-equity\/","title":{"rendered":"Can i dilute my cofounders equity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>so me and a couple of friends started this company. nothing is official yet but we have a verbal agreement for 58% me 10% for our CTO,2% advisor and 30% for my CFO. but he hasn&#8217;t put in any money yet unlike me he didn&#8217;t come up with anything besides stealing an idea from Upwork that we both saw. and has done maybe three things. for what he&#8217;s done he shouldn&#8217;t have nearly that much equity. I still want to keep him as part of the company and were pretty good friends but he should have an amount closer to his actual contribution<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>so me and a couple of friends started this company. nothing is official yet but we have a verbal agreement for 58% me 10% for our CTO,2% advisor and 30% for my CFO. but he hasn&#8217;t put in any money yet unlike me he didn&#8217;t come up with anything besides stealing an idea from Upwork [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Can i dilute my cofounders equity - Startups Anonymous<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/startupsanonymous.com\/question\/can-i-dilute-my-cofounders-equity\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Can i dilute my cofounders equity - 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