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So far, no one took salary. Everyone would start having similar salaries at the same time

Since no one has taken a salary (even though forgone salary is not really something at risk) I believe it would merit factoring it in.

I would say: 57 37 5 1 potentially seems appropriate to me.

A and B having real money at risk get the lion's share and everyone gets some credit proportional to the time they have volunteered to get the thing going.

While it is all still on paper, you might also want to work out who's pot future stock incentives come out of. Is it A only or A and B equally or proportionately? Alternatively, do you carve out a block now for such purposes perhaps based on all 4 contributing proportionately to the block.

Thank for you opinion. Factoring in the fact that Dan is quitting his current job at a big FANG with total comp in the 400-500k range (this creates a higher equity cost for him). Most of us used to be software engineers, but with nowhere near that kind of comp. How much this consideration would that impact the equity?

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