Shareholding proposal · Private limited company

Founders' Split Sheet

Each of the four partners fills in their own line, rates everyone, and sends back a short code. Paste the codes here and the sheet turns them into a suggested shareholding, criterion by criterion, so the number has a reason behind it.

Works in any browser. Answers stay on this device until you share a code.

Your input

Pick your seat, describe what you bring, then rate all four partners. You can come back and change your answers.

Your seat
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Add a partner's answers

Paste the code a partner sent you. Their seat fills in and the split updates.

Suggested split

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Dashed line marks an equal 25% share.

Before you file the shareholding

Treat this as a starting position for the conversation, not a verdict. If one partner's number feels wrong to everyone, the weights are wrong, and that is the thing to fix.

  • Vest the sweat portion. Time and effort are promises about the future. Put the non-cash part of each partner's share on a 4-year vesting schedule with a 1-year cliff, so a partner who leaves in month six does not keep a founder's stake.
  • Separate cash from sweat. Money put in now can be issued as paid-up shares immediately. Effort-based shares are better handled through a founders' agreement with vesting, or in phases.
  • Keep a decision maker. Four near-equal partners can deadlock. Agree in the shareholders' agreement how ties are broken, and who signs for day-to-day matters.
  • Write down exits. Good-leaver and bad-leaver terms, right of first refusal on share transfers, and a buy-back price formula save friendships later.
  • Revisit after 12 months. Re-run this sheet with what actually happened, and let the agreement allow an adjustment.