[boomzilla]

This is a key point. If you three all started from a coffee shop, why are they co-founders and you are the first employee? Even if the other two persons worked on the company a few month before you started, after 4 years, you'd been there (and hopefully contributed) 90% of the founders time and contribution.

Startup life is hard, and it's a lot easier to sacrifice with significant ownership and a sense of purposes.

[astartupemp]

Well I didn't come up with the idea and I waited until they could raise some seed because I needed a salary. I did build the product from scratch, in fact that's the only thing out in the market currently. I didn't care about titles. And I didn't know about equity. I just joined because I wanted to solve the problem.