[yoav]

Add this to your list of behaviours to check for in founders when joining your next startup and leave as soon as it makes financial sense to do so.

Your CEO’s primary job is to steer the ship and inspire employees.

They’re exhibiting personality traits that aren’t fixable in most people that I’ve seen this in over my career. They likely will never change and almost certainly not in the middle of this startup experience.

Yes you invested time in building this idea, and you can take everything you learned and your experience on with you in your career. If you vested some equity or wait till you do so then you can also benefit from it’s success. But from what you describe this CEO is likely one of the 90% of startups that fail so I wouldn’t hold my breath.

Good luck, on to the next.