For equity for cofounder, ensure they keep working at it. No im not a hardass, i’ve just seen too many posts of “how do I separate from my co founder that isn’t really working anymore?” And the only answer is buy them out, keep going, or dissolve it. And seen too many like the uber ceo or other big cases. What’s the standard for this?

Yeah I know the standard is find someone who works hard and doesn’t have this problem, but I dont know anyone who would be up to this, and hiring your friends isn’t often good anyway. So finding other cofounders to be a part of it. The average for mid sized startups secondary cofounders have on average 50% of the lead founder, or equal parts. Or like the hired ceo after its bigger average 2-5%.

What’s the standard? Vesting schedule? How do you determine vesting? Normally with hired ceos big its vest based on tiers of revenue growth or something, what about if you dont know really because it’s kinda brand new? Vesting based on what? What the lead founder thinks they’ve done good enough, what the 2/3 of the founders think the third did good enough? Seems like qualitative can run into problems quickly. Start with qualitative and switch to quantitive later? A vesting max, and pay minimum or something, with a separation clause? I want to give assurity that we won’t just fire them and separate after they’ve worked a bit though. Is there a standard name I can look up?