Sorry for your difficult situation. 1. Outsourcing may not be a good option particularly for work that can be done by 1-2 developers. Approach a local develope

Sorry for your difficult situation. 1. Outsourcing may not be a good option particularly for work that can be done by 1-2 developers. Approach a local developer, try and negotiate a contract where you give equity but not salary. 2. The runaway developer has 35% equity still? That might be very problematic in the future. 3. I do not about Django particularly but learning Python is not tough. Python is a very easy language to pickup and you should devote some time to learning the language so that you can at least understand what your fellow dev is doing.