Yes, and your CEO is clueless.  That&#x27;s not how equity <i>or</i> investment work (you don&#x27;t &quot;reserve shares&quot; for an investor, new preferred shares are issued and everyone holding common gets diluted).  Good investors <i>want</i> to see founders with roughly equal shares; a large discrepancy indicates that some founders are insufficiently incentivized and probably won&#x27;t be around long.  The best way to maintain majority control of the company is to be profitable - percentage ownership means nothing if you&#x27;re about to go bankrupt and the only way to save the company is to negotiate a deal where the investors get control.<p>Stop hanging out with this loser, build up your technical skills so you have a track record of projects built from scratch that you can show people, and then partner with someone who&#x27;ll actually value you like a partner.