Fucking 2023 man. I’m in a similar situation with 2023 being failure across the board. It’s just the economy at the moment killing all the startups. Don’t take it to heart.

The big problem is you don’t have any peers with which to socialize. You’re alone and feeling schlubby.

Because they don’t trust you to have more of a say in what to do with the money they invested than them. They want to be equal.

You need to bring the paying customers. Simple as that.

I discussed this at length with my attorneys when setting up my C-corp for my startup. 2k in legal fees later the consensus was that this will make it extremely unattractive to investors and nobody except superstars will be able to pull this off. Anything more than one member = one vote is looked down upon.