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So, as an example, with a business guy & technical co-founder, the business guy believes the technical co-founder should deserve 80% of the company, the technical guy believes the business guy should deserve 40% of the company.

80% + 40% = 120%. Thus, the business guy ends up with 40%/120% = 33.3% and the technical guy ends up with 80%/120% = 66.6% of the company.

Both walk away happy that they got more than they felt like they deserved.



since when tech guy gets more than business guy?

(to all the downvoters: I'm genuinely interested)


It totally depends on the nature of the company. In many successful tech companies like (Google/FB/DropBox etc..), I believe tech guys owns majority.


To quote from the grandparent "So, as an example,..."


Maybe when there are real technical challenges? Developers capable of creating CRUD business applications are basically a commodity




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