[richardjortega]

Why do you think we have "HUGE egos"?

I'm trying to be open and candid. I just want to have a great startup team and that's why I chose him - yes because we were "college chums" and I thought he was one of the top backend devs I ever saw. How does trying to create a startup and dealing with growing pains and situation like this make be a bad person.

I don't want to "sell" my programmer on a vision, I want him to see what the opportunity is. I would love to give him full founder equity like stated (3-5% of the 20% fonders share - same as us!). I just want to figure out if we are a good fit or not, his work is amazing, we have difficulty working together.

I feel that I'm tied to one developer because of what stage we are at (prefunding) but we may raise capital or be in a notable accelerator. I want him with us, but I want someone I can work with too.