It's a direct question for the parent commenter who's going on about how it shouldn't be OK to give individual people shares to convince them to come work for you.
If you get six months into "working" on a project and realize you're missing some core skill, "hire" someone. Call them "cofounder." Give them an appropriate amount of the shares.
It's exactly the same in the end as closing one business and starting a new one that's divvied up the same way.
I'm arguing that being able to give important employees a stake in the company is just good sense, and having to "sell them on the open market" instead is about as inane an idea as I've heard this year.
