Founder Removal

They settled at forty thousand dollars and 0.005 percent advisor equity contingent on the term sheet closing above one billion, subject to legal review. It was tiny. It was enormous. It was the first time in Ethan's life anyone had paid him for knowing which direction danger would come from. He gave her the plan. Do not deny the leak. Preempt it. At 8:05 a.m., before Nathan Kline could whisper governance concerns to a friendly reporter, Priya would send a founder letter to investors announcing an expanded operating council: a CFO search, an independent security audit, and a customer advisory group including two Fortune 100 AI infrastructure buyers. She would frame it as scaling discipline, not board pressure.