This. Having been on both sides of the table (early employee and later a founder), I still struggle with what the right distribution would and should be. There are just so many factors to consider (pivots, investors, acquirers, risk) that it seems unlikely that a simple formula or blanket rule will guide people right. Probably case-by-case basis and a realization that information asymmetry + control in early stage companies leads to a slight, but correctable, favoring of founders/investors' interests.
