[a_taylor]

I find the equity split between Drew (25.3%) and Arash (10.3%) especially interesting given @paulg's 2014 tweet that "Zero of the most successful YC companies have a significantly disproportionate equity split" https://twitter.com/paulg/status/535588566978404352

[tim333]

Dropbox was an unusual case in that Drew built the product and got into YC before getting Arash to join. I guess maybe a lesson is that you can invent and code up something like the early dropbox on your own but it's useful to have a cofounder when employing a bunch of people and building a company?

[portman]

It may have started equal at founding and changed over subsequent rounds. I know of a case where 4 founders started equal and differed by order of magnitude by the end.

[Hydraulix989]

How did this happen?

[LoungeFlyZ]

Many will sell some of their stock during a funding round to the new investor to take some money out and blow it on lambos.

[mbesto]

Come to think of it - I don't many successful startups where the split is exactly equal prior to the IPO.

You'll find in the twitter replies that most people don't agree with his anecdata.

[hueving]

How is that not counterevidence given the significant split between the two?

[andyfleming]

I think that may be his point (that PG views that as an appropriate split for one or more reasons).