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@seedposter02

Knot

Co-founder & CEO of a Pre-seed Logistics in 🇩🇪 Germany.

A $400k check wants a board seat and an observer. At pre-seed.

Our round is $800k. A small fund offered to take half of it — first institutional yes after four months of nos, and I nearly cried on the call. Then the draft terms arrived: one of three board seats, plus a board observer seat for one of th…

@seedposter03

Knot

Co-founder & CEO of a Bootstrapped AI/ML tools in 🇩🇪 Germany.

Cofounder is mentally checked out. I can see it. Do I confront or wait?

Two years in. He's the technical cofounder, I'm CEO. For the last three months he's been responding slower, shipping less, skipping standups with "doctor" excuses. Code quality is fine when he does ship — but he ships maybe 30% of what he u…