Why not? I don't think Paul was asking for a mathematical breakdown of who has contributed to your idea so far. (You: 60%, Her: 28%, Neighbor: 10%, Former Roomate: 1%, inspirational Paul Graham article, 0.5%, etc.)
You could have said that she's a founder as well. I think that could have even increased your chances of being accepted. And if you say she contributed enough for it to count, and you know that both of you would quit your jobs to work on the idea if you received a lot of funding, how does that not make her a founder? You as a family would also keep more of a company as two founders than as one, if you had to give stock to your first or second employees who join later on (I could be wrong.)
She's a full-time mom, and I don't want her to quit that job. Yes, it could have increased our chances of being accepted, but we thought it was important to be perfectly honest in terms of commitment level. I wanted to involve YC only if we and they were a match. They may not know how to help us anyway.
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Why not? I don't think Paul was asking for a mathematical breakdown of who has contributed to your idea so far. (You: 60%, Her: 28%, Neighbor: 10%, Former Roomate: 1%, inspirational Paul Graham article, 0.5%, etc.)
You could have said that she's a founder as well. I think that could have even increased your chances of being accepted. And if you say she contributed enough for it to count, and you know that both of you would quit your jobs to work on the idea if you received a lot of funding, how does that not make her a founder? You as a family would also keep more of a company as two founders than as one, if you had to give stock to your first or second employees who join later on (I could be wrong.)
She's a full-time mom, and I don't want her to quit that job. Yes, it could have increased our chances of being accepted, but we thought it was important to be perfectly honest in terms of commitment level. I wanted to involve YC only if we and they were a match. They may not know how to help us anyway.