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make founders firable "at will" instead of "for cause", so if one founder is acting up the others can kick him out to satisfy any defintion of "leaving" and that's that

Note - this is _highly_ dangerous in the presence of outside investors such as hard-nosed VCs. Unvested options cause reverse dilution, meaning there is an active financial incentive to your investors to kick out a founder with a lot of stock if they think they can get by without you. Venture Hacks generally recommends accelerated vesting on termination, for this reason - check out http://venturehacks.com/term-sheet-hacks#vesting



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