Sales trumps engineering. This is gonna piss a lot of engineers, but an amazing product without sales gets you nowhere. A shitty product with great sales still gets you somewhere.

So, if you think you can line up clients, deals, have a great network, then sure, this is an insult. If not, 23% of something kicking off is so much greater than 50% of zombie mode.

Your partner obviously values his skills for this business more than your contributions. It’s up to you to understand if that’s valid.

You do know that almost all of these companies have delivery centers in developing countries to offset cost