What if I'm not "indifferent" to whether my cofounders stay, but also can't see into the future? What if I'd like the option to continue a functional company even if one or more members of my team decide that it isn't a fit?
Why am I more worried about this situation than the ones where my partners conspire against me to steal my stake in the company? Because the situation I'm describing happens all the time, and, as I mentioned upthread, easily happen even when every party is acting in good faith.
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I have a pair of friends who went in on a YC company together. The partnership didn't work out; one left to join and eventually lead another YC company, the other stayed. Both founders had strong, liquidity-event exits afterwards (within months of each other, in fact). Nobody foresaw the partnership failing, but this (super ultra common) eventually was handled by the book, and everyone won in the end. I'm, again, having a hard time seeing the net downside of vesting.
Why am I more worried about this situation than the ones where my partners conspire against me to steal my stake in the company? Because the situation I'm describing happens all the time, and, as I mentioned upthread, easily happen even when every party is acting in good faith.
ps
I have a pair of friends who went in on a YC company together. The partnership didn't work out; one left to join and eventually lead another YC company, the other stayed. Both founders had strong, liquidity-event exits afterwards (within months of each other, in fact). Nobody foresaw the partnership failing, but this (super ultra common) eventually was handled by the book, and everyone won in the end. I'm, again, having a hard time seeing the net downside of vesting.