Crunchbase: Standard Four-Year Founder Vesting Is Producing Litigation Over Dead Weight on the Cap Table
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Crunchbase News published a piece from Siegel & Grellas on how the default four-year founder vesting schedule leaves departed founders holding large stakes that complicate later financings and control, and increasingly draws lawsuits aimed at clawing those shares back. The relevance to AI-era SaaS is the shrinking team: when a venture-scale product ships with four to twenty-four people, each founder's percentage is larger and a single departure is a bigger structural problem than it was in a fifty-person seed team.