How old is the company? Clearly you are not a cofounder. Sounds like you are getting a title in lieu of salary. Also, as a "cofounder" they are going to work

How old is the company? Clearly you are not a cofounder. Sounds like you are getting a title in lieu of salary. Also, as a "cofounder" they are going to work you hard (80-100 hours). I.e. this is not 9-5 job, so if you compare it to market rate you should see it as at least 1.5 position. What is intermediate? Can you put in a contract the length of time of low salary. Also, what is low salary? Also, who is going to create the product ? You ? Confounder A? Note that VP of sales means nothing in startup. Specifically pre seed. I.e. there is nobody to manage and there is no sale infrastructure. So I am not sure what is the VP of sale role is? Sale of what? I see a lot of red flags - Low MRR, VP of sales from the get go for an deep tech company, Low balling an engineer. etc.