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I agree with the idea of having a frank discussion with the co-founder but with respect to motivation I'm not sure it's going to be simple to get to the source

I agree with the idea of having a frank discussion with the co-founder but with respect to motivation I'm not sure it's going to be simple to get to the source of the true reason. Motivation is why I struggle with finding cofounders. I have a number of good friends who I know well, even went to school with, some of them are programmers just like I am. However they can't be cofounders because they're too happy with their lives to be motivated enough to work like I do. We have similar lives, they're just very content with the status quo, I'm not. It may be that this person could offer more shares and still get no more time out of the person, this is such a difficult problem to solve.

rday 11y ago
As a bitter old dev with many failed startups behind me, I find this a tad insulting. This isn't an attack response, but maybe I can provide some perspective from the other side. I work really hard. I organize multiple meetups. I give talks. I do open source(not well, but I try). I have a full time job making way more than the "status quo" working from my basement. "Founders" are very quick to discard all of this, and ask me to put my full efforts into their idea for this equity concept. They tend to provide no incentive other than how their idea is the one that will make it. I'm very motivated. Especially when I see the results of my years of effort everyday. Why throw this all away to work on somebody else's vision of success?