[SolarNet]

Many early employees are truly better called founders, just ones that didn't officially work at the company until after it's founding.

He could have been moonlighting for them, he may have helped come up with the original idea, or work with the company to solve some of the core design challenges.

Just because his title wasn't co-founder doesn't mean he wasn't as important as any other founder or early employee.

[jader201]

I agree, and I wasn't trying to diminish his role. I was just trying to understand where the "co-founder" in the title came from. How did the submitter know he was truly a co-founder?

I couldn't find mention of this anywhere, so I was assuming the submitter knew some history of him that I couldn't find on their site.