Fire him, it’ll just get worse going forward. Document all his lack of work before his shares get vested and kick him out. If you havent incorporated and dont

Fire him, it’ll just get worse going forward. Document all his lack of work before his shares get vested and kick him out. If you havent incorporated and dont have a legal agreement, just kick him out and continue yourself. Initial startup phase is like the honeymoon phase, if he’s not a do-er even in this phase, it’s unlikely he’ll work consistently on it all, once you’re gaining traction and have to put more effort to grow. Once startup gains traction, there’s so many things to work on, deepening product market fit, improving conversion rate at various stages, user tests, setting up teams, hiring good folks, growth hacking, etc. It’s a ton of work, if he cant do things now, there is very little chance he’ll be able to do things then. I think he lacks self-decision skills and reasoning through his every action to improve upon his tasks, he also seems to lack commitment. It’s typically also a sign of you not being able to 100% sell your vision of the company to him. This is a hard thing to do that you’ll encounter again once you start hiring. But eitherway its best to remove him. People like this who fail to deliver at such an early stage, become worse later. It’s not your job to sell the vision to him. He chose to be a co-founder instead of an employee and he’s not pulling his weight. I had a co-founder like this once, removed him after giving him 6 months to improve. Best decision I ever took. We are still on friendly terms, and he was a good person. Fire him nicely, and avoid bringing to many emotions into it, I hope your co-founder understands. Good luck, this is an important matter to settle before things start gaining more traction and then it’ll be harder to remove him. (And remove all his contributed work, name logo, etc, he can claim % of company or an outrageous price figure, and show it as stolen work later, depending on your jurisdiction, remove all of his work, that you didnt pay for via a legal invoice from him)