> I'm curious why you didnt negotiate harder some time into this.
I guess it comes down to being a techy engineer that doesn't know how to even begin to negotiate confrontationally.
Thus my thought that if I ever consider such a role again I'll find a startup employment lawyer to tell me what to do.
I've dealt with someone like that once but if they are any good they will never sit around and wait for 6 months. That person hustled very hard, cycled through several upwork teams and CTOs. through ruthless arm twisting kept all the code and underpaid everybody, finally settled on a CTO with 0 self-esteem and slave terms, and ended up building a rather successful company by now.
>> At least didn't waste too many years on that one.
Firstly, i'm sorry to hear about your situation. I'm curious why you didnt negotiate harder some time into this. It seems to be you held all the cards.
I'm fascinated by the number of "business co-founders" who think they can cut a 25k check to some random person on eLance/Upwork and replace technical co-founders.
My recommendation would be to say -- sure, try that. Lets talk in 6mo if you still need me, but i'll set the terms at that point. 6mo is about when most non-technical people realize they have no code in source control and some random person overseas now owns their company effectively.