Regarding: &quot;I started work­ing n months be­fore my co-founder&quot;<p>A really good way to handle this is with vesting, which is something every company should have. Normally stock vests as you spend more time at the company, in my opinion it&#x27;s totally fair for cofounders to have equal stock allocations but if one founder was working for 6 months before the other joined they should be 6 months ahead on their vesting.