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Shouldn’t I get more equity because it was my idea?
No. Ideas are pretty much worthless. It is not worth the arguments it would cause to pay someone in equity for an idea. If one of you had the idea but you both quit your jobs and started working at the same time, you should both get the same amount of equity. Working on the company is what causes value, not thinking up some crazy invention in the shower.
”— Joel Spolsky from his excellent response on StackExchange to the question of allocating equity at a startup.
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