If you are asking, then the answer is: likely. There is a lot of nuance though, so I recommend finding a trustworthy third party to talk it out with. All the

If you are asking, then the answer is: likely. There is a lot of nuance though, so I recommend finding a trustworthy third party to talk it out with. All the questions and answers to discover the contours of your situation can easily be enough to identify you, which I assume you do not want at this stage. Things to consider, but not answer here: - the relationship with your cofounders: how many, how do votes work, etc. What did you decide in your founders agreement? Is the relationship antagonistic? Have you lost respect for them or they in you? - relationship with your investors. Who has face time with them? What say or vote do they have? How are their interests aligned with yours vs your co-founder(s)? - relationship with the employees. Who do they look up to and respect? Will they follow you on to your next thing? - relationship with your customers. Do they know and interface with you or someone else? - your skillset. Are you the technologist that invented something the the company was founded on? Do you generate all the sales? Have you created a great team that can now survive without you? Take some time and try and live in the other side's perspective. You are moving in a different direction than they are. Do they find that painful? Will losing you be more or less painful than keeping you? Short term? Long term? What timing is at play (could be funding round, or something else)? Best of luck!