My co-founder and I bootstrapped our startup for two years without paying ourselves but now we have some revenue and we can't agree on whether to pay ourselves equally or based on our different contributions and it's getting weird.
More people experience this than they realize.
The transition from sweat equity to actual paychecks forces a reckoning with how to value different types of contributions and maintain partnership equity.
“Where Are You with Labor economics — how wages are set?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.