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If the product is as good as you say it is, there should be plenty of money to pay well. And paying people well should increase the quality further: if you don'

• jtheory 16y ago
  <i>If the product is as good as you say it is, there should be plenty of money to pay well.</i> It sounds to me like this business is currently failing, but your boss is "faking it" by exploiting you; he might just as well be paying you normally but keeping the doors open by draining his grandmother's bank account. It might not be a problem with the product -- after all, the client list is growing swiftly. Simply put, he needs to either find the money to pay for what he's demanding from you, or he needs to close up shop. He might need a loan or investment to cover the gap until you are cashflow positive, but in this case he is stealing from you instead. It's not even an "investment" on your part, because he seems to have utterly no intent to pay you back. That's just stealing. For comparison, in an honest situation, he would be either: * paying you a normal salary as an employee * paying you a higher rate as a 1099 contractor (to account for your reduced security and benefits) * or paying you less but accepting the difference as your personal investment in the company -- so like any investment, if the risk pays off, you would be paid back MORE than your investment in the future. This would be formalized by giving you shares, etc. (and you should be able to calculate how/when you would be repaid).