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The only way to get paid the correct amount you "really" deserve is to be a founder yourself. But it is definitely not the easy way.

The founder is clearly exploiting you, but he sure has justifications in his head. Something like, it was all my idea, I took the risk, it was my execution, etc.. etc.. I think you must negotiate with the founder. Basically a bit of everything that you just wrote above.

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"The only way to get paid the correct amount you "really" deserve is to be a founder yourself."

If you make something that it turns out people don't really want, though, you could get paid nothing. While that's the amount you really deserve in some sense, I can see the appeal of hedging that by letting someone else take most of that risk/reward, which is what all employees do.

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