&quot;My ad­vice for split­ting eq­uity is prob­a­bly con­tro­ver­sial, but it’s what we have done for all of my star­tups, and what we al­most al­ways rec­om­mend at YC: equal eq­uity splits among co-founders.&quot;<p>But, it seems a lot of the highest performing companies except for Google &amp; AirBnB in the past 10-20 years seem to have unequal founder stakes:
Amazon, Facebook, Snapchat, Uber, Dropbox, SpaceX, Tesla, Pinterest, Slack...<p>Even Microsoft &amp; Oracle from an earlier era had unequal founder stakes...<p>Got some of these names from:
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