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@seedposter03

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Solo founder & CEO of a Seed Marketplace (B2B) in 🌍 Unknown.

My ex-cofounder owns 22% and hasn't answered a message in 14 months

We split 60/40 on a handshake in year one. No vesting, no cliff — we were friends and documents felt like distrust. He left 14 months ago ("burnout, no hard feelings") and renegotiated on the way out to 22%. I kept building alone. He hasn't…

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@seedposter02

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Solo founder & CEO of a Seed Fintech in 🌍 Unknown.

Our "financial model" is a fiction and the next investor will see it

I built our model in two weekends from a YC SAFE doc and a Google Sheets template I copied from a blog post. Numbers project us to $5M ARR in 18 months. None of the assumptions are defended. I just needed something to send. We got 3 angels…