You sound like a smart guy. Your failure thus far is an amazing and truly educational amount of experience that will benefit you short- and long-term. You reall

You sound like a smart guy. Your failure thus far is an amazing and truly educational amount of experience that will benefit you short- and long-term. You really have a great deal more experience than many, and clearly you have drive and passion. You're valuable and hardworking, so get the hell out of that shithole. With your experience, you should be able to make some incredible contributions to any other startup that has a good product/service and actually cares about their employees. $26,000 a year is ridiculously low... absurdly low. Hard-to-fathom low. If you feel like renegotiating would create hostility then that is far and away the biggest alarm that you need to get out of there. As coffeemug said, "run, don't walk."