Title: I&#x27;m leaving a startup I founded due to disagreements over team&#x2F;strategy. I worked on it for about half a year.<p>When we founded the company, there was prior work done, so we vested some equity up front to acknowledge that. Since that time, we&#x27;ve pivoted and also recently added team members. Now that I am leaving, the other founders are asking me to return some&#x2F;most&#x2F;all of the equity that was vested up front.<p>Is this reasonable? Do I have any obligation to return&#x2F;surrender the vested equity?<p>Additionally, when I voiced objections to returning the vested equity, they brought up the fact that they may start a new company on the same idea and reset the entire equity metrics altogether. Is this common?
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