Ask HN: Co-founder leaving a startup for free without equity?

Re:Ask HN: Co-founder leaving a startup for free without equ... by mch82 on Tuesday September 24, 2019 @11:55AM (#21061506)

I like to look at similar losses from this perspective: To learn what I did, would I pay about the same amount for a college course?

In the scope of your life, $1000 probably isn’t that much and it’s about the same as a college course. You’ve learned a lot. Those lessons are valuable. This hasn’t been a failure.

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Re:Ask HN: Co-founder leaving a startup for free without equ... by mickeyM on Tuesday September 24, 2019 @05:45PM (#21064962)

That's true, I've definitely learned a lot, I guess during my time with the company I was able to cover a lot of curriculum on various topics :)

It would just feel bad to me to walk away for free from something I was working on that can be tomorrow sold for couple (tens of)thousands (the value doesn't really matter in this case) for free

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Re:Ask HN: Co-founder leaving a startup for free without equ... by heavenlyblue on Tuesday September 24, 2019 @05:38PM (#21064906)

I don’t know. At 19 I was at the university doing my first year and already earning £18K/year freelancing as a software engineer.

So frankly there are many people who can start their own companies, but there’s a lot to learn in terms of actually working with people and choosing the right ones to build a company with, too.

The fact that their party can’t be fair regarding their share is already a huge-huge red flag. Many supposedly greedy people I know wouldn’t do that simply because they have respect for the capitalism (or in other words - they know perfectly well that their words are no longer enforceable).

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