> Wait until you have maximium leverage and then play your legal cards.

From the other version of events, in how Guillory presents it, there were no cards to play - he just assumed the entire time that he had a stake and when the acquisition came he got in touch to figure out how to collect his share.

I know it seems absurd that someone can sit back and not do any further work and expect to collect as much as the other co-founder, but it is a valid legal argument.

The onus was on the company to set out a legally sound and defensible separation.