Scintillating conversations are worth buying the dinner you have them over.  Shares get issued for doing lots of work for a period of years.  Founders with quote no business or technical ability endquote who nonetheless are capable of value-producing work exist [+]; people who do not actually do work create no meaningful value and are not founders.<p>[+] Startups are basically all about people who are theoretically &quot;unqualified&quot; to do things repeatedly doing things they are unqualified to do.