My co-founder and I are both working for equity only while we build our app, but she just inherited some money and I'm running out of my savings and might need to take a part-time job. We haven't talked about what happens if one of us can't commit full-time anymore, and I'm worried that bringing it up will make me seem less committed when really it's just about survival.
More people experience this than they realize.
Equity partnerships require sustained financial sacrifice that may become unsustainable at different rates for different people.
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