&gt; The legal piece on this is vital but almost in tow, as it were. A standard Delaware C corp is the only option, which is adequate for a start but will clearly not meet the needs of a potentially huge number of founding teams that may have differing circumstances.<p>I know a C corp is the bay area standard, but at least in the midwest many startups still begin as LLCs for simplicity.  I hope the Atlas team considers this for future work.