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Founder Reporter: The Founder Agreement Gap — Why the Deal Between Founders Must Evolve
Matthew Fornaro was featured in Founder Reporter discussing what he calls the “founder agreement gap” — the distance between the deal founders originally put on paper and the company they’re actually running years later.
The piece walks through how founder agreements tend to freeze at the moment of formation, even as the business itself keeps changing — new capital contributions, shifting day-to-day roles, intellectual property created along the way, and eventually, a founder’s exit. Fornaro makes the case that an equal ownership split doesn’t always mean equal roles, and that conflating ownership, compensation, and workload is one of the most common sources of founder disputes down the line.
He also addresses deadlock — what happens when co-founders disagree and no procedure exists to break the tie — and argues the best time to fix gaps in a founder agreement is well before the company becomes valuable enough for those gaps to matter.
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About Matthew Fornaro, P.A.
Matthew Fornaro, P.A. is an AV Preeminent-rated business litigation and transactional law firm based in Coral Springs, Florida, serving entrepreneurs, startups, and established companies with business formation, contracts, intellectual property, and commercial litigation matters throughout South Florida.
