Interestingly, those numbers are the same order of magnitude cost of a coder for 18 months. That feels right to me, that you'd get ~$100k, and perhaps retain .5

Interestingly, those numbers are the same order of magnitude cost of a coder for 18 months. That feels right to me, that you'd get ~$100k, and perhaps retain .5%, basically demoting yourself to a (fully vested) second gen hire, and moving on with your life. No investor would see that as "dead weight".