peter wendell, founder of cr ventures, gave me some advice on how to divide up ownership from the beginning that's always the easy way, oh, let's just do it 50/50 or three founders, one-third each. but, you know, over time some businesses, the contributions of the two parties really were 50/50 but in a lot of businesses one person is interested for a year or so and then moves aside or it's obvious one person is the person who will provide the leadership and overall direction. >> how do you determine how to divide up that equity in the company if it seems, at least in the beginning or in the moment, that it's half and half? >> well, one thing that founders often don't realize is you don't have to divvy up all the equity up front. so, if you and i are going to divvy up a business together, we'll say, we'll give you each half and then divvy it up in a year. >> this is interesting. you and your partnership get a certain part of the company, you have some set aside, and then when should you revisit it, a month, a year, two years? >> generally the longer they're in the company's life, the easier

peters burg early next month because expanding trade with emerging economies like brazil, south africa, and china is an important part of growing the u.s. economy. shannon? >> wendell live in marl martha's vineyard. thank you very much. >>> ranking member of the foreign affairs committee and republican committee member, welcome to you both, gentlemen. >> thank you. >> hello. >> congressmen engel, i'll start with you. this morning senator mccain said the president doesn't have the right read on putin. he said he's an old kgb column l and doesn't care about the u.s. or our relationship. your response? >> well, i think the president has the right read, but i think senator mccain is right. i think putin knew what he was doing when he granted asylum to snowden. putin basically said he didn't care about his relationship with the united states, and i think that the united states has to fundamentally reassess its attitude towards russia and towards putin. on the other hand, russia is an important country. they are helping us in afghanistan to remove some of our supplies, and so we don't want to cut off our nose to spite our face. i think it's outrageous what putin did, and