davinciceb

In theory, he's going to be doing all of our business development, applying to accelerators and investors, market research, marketing, SEO/SEM, etc.

The problem is that he didn't want to do any of this until we have a platform up and running already, and so far all he's been doing is just meeting with his friends who know a lot about marketing and business development and learning from them about these topics.

Meanwhile, I've been coding the platform the whole time. Theoretically, if we had been aligned the entire time, I would be fine with this, because once I've finished a beta version of the platform I can sit back and relax and let him do all the BizDev/Marketing work. Unfortunately, we lost our alignment on what each of us wants to do with the platform, so I'm leaving now.

Thanks for the advice!

I want to clear up something here that I might have not made clear in the original post...

Neither of us actually agreed to that condition, it was something he brought up when we were going over the founders agreement section about one founder leaving before a company is formed.

I was explaining to him what mutual separation of assets meant, and he told me that he thought the person leaving should give the person staying rights to everything. We ended up disagreeing on this, and we left it in the founders agreement as "mutual separation of assets".

So to be clear, I never agreed to work under those terms, and he never brought it up again, because we both saw a lot of issues with that.

I just wanted to bring it up because I wanted to know what others thought.