Is your ego more important than moving the company forward?
Good luck.
Good luck.
When a company is just a CEO and a CTO, someone in the c-suite has to take the garbage to the dumpster.
I don’t have a side, but one of them is working for free on a company they don’t own…because if they did own some of it, the titles would be settled on the corporate documents.
I can see why the poster's use of the word "disrespectful" might make you wonder about that, but the full context seems to make it clear that it's not a question of ego. "Presumptuous" might have been a better choice of words for the BIG red flag raised by the "friend's" action.
Maybe that’s not ego, but it will do until ego shows up.
There’s nothing wrong with ego motivating a course of action.
The problem is not recognizing that’s what is motivating the course of action.
YMMV.
I do not mind sharing as well. The general advice I get is, cofounder is a forward looking role and equity should be forward looking. But that conversation needs to happen first.