[troelsSteegin]

I would look to some respected third parties in order to present and test your respective business bets. Maybe that would help each of you reassess risks and returns. What do your judges think the potential is for each?

Six programmer months of code is a lot of work, but also in the bigger view it is not that much for someone else to redo, especially if you've a clear model to work from. Perhaps you can secure rights to operate the service while someone else writes a new code line.

The other question is how does your founder see replacing you in his pivoted venture? Maybe your participation is worth more to him than he realizes.