Excellent question and context. Long answer, four points. 1. With all respect to your experience being triggered, etc, your experience has nothing to do with t

Excellent question and context. Long answer, four points. 1. With all respect to your experience being triggered, etc, your experience has nothing to do with the experience of most of your users whom you would acknowledge will likely not share that experience. The personal sensitivities of staff really is not what any business in its right mind solves for. I won't say you are crazy, your experience is what it is, but the painful truth is that your personal experience is irrelevant to the business. It's really important- also painful- to see that. I'm sorry. 2. Your personal experience is relevant to your relationships in and outside the business, but only insofar as you nurture those relationships and that they are healthy ones for you. It sounds like they are not, and on top of that you are in a position of psychic debt from a relationship perspective to your perception of your ownership stake, which is probably a misperception. 3. Your ownership stake is a mirage. Numbers written on paper are worth nothing in early stages, they are strawperson framings of stakes that serve the purposes of the parties really driving the bus and will be changed in the blink of an eye (by dilution, etc) if it starts to matter. It is SUPER SUPER important to understand that, and to transition your thinking to a mode where you have zero stake, that if you want this business to succeed that you are going to earn your stake, and the only way to earn your stake is to (re)build relationships with key people and to deliver results that matter to the business, not to you personally. Very likely this is a non starter for you. 4. The short painful version is that it very much sounds like you are in deep emotional debt and this colors everything. No one is forcing someone with a dog allergy to sit next to a dog. They just aren't. If someone has a dog allergy, they can't work in a pet store. That's fine because there are lots of other jobs. Same here. No one is forcing you to work for this business. You can leave tomorrow and in practice you would lose nothing, because early stakes are on balance worth nothing. You definitely think you can't leave- this is on you. The MOST IMPORTANT thing is to you to get out of emotional debt and get back to a place where you can bring your strengths, and not your weaknesses, to your work. If you were in an emotionally strong place with strong relationships you COULD leave tomorrow and find people who respected your sensitivities and who valued your understanding of the market and then that might be something. My advice is to make emotional health your goal. Best wishes, from someone who has been there, multiple times.