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So if one was to start a company today and wanted to enshrine employee-and-founder-friendly terms in their company, how should things be structured? Make the founders' shares be of the same class as the employees? Something special?

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Make it a cooperative. https://tech-coops.xyz/

Kind of a non-starter. No one is going to found and invest in a cooperative.

i started a business that i'm planning to organize as a cooperative. currently looking for funding and it's hard because the structure is foreign to investors, though it's a business structure that is proven to work. maybe if more people organized their enterprises this way then it would be easier to find investment.

Yes, it takes some education. I've founded a cooperative in Finland and, although the legislation here is very favourable to cooperatives, it took me months to convince PRH (the public register) to certify our bylaws which included an option for investment shares. But we did it!

Do seek professional help. It doesn't need to be expensive lawyers, there may be gratis support from the cooperative network. https://ica.coop/en

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