[swatcoder]

> he holds a majority of shares

Whether that was anyone's intent or not, he founded a company and sold you an opportunity to profit from its success in exchange for the services you could contribute. That company of his is now evolving, maybe because he's risk-averse or maybe because he has good instincts.

If you can't get behind the new vision and don't think the company will succeed, you're working for nothing and should write it off as a learning experience and move on, thankful that you only bet six months on it.

You're the 4,454,313rd startup employee to experience this and if you keep working for equity like you did here, you'll probably experience it several more times.