Thanks for elaborating. An interesting counterpoint. I suppose how much money the company started with, what it was spent on, what sort of payment agreement the

Thanks for elaborating. An interesting counterpoint. I suppose how much money the company started with, what it was spent on, what sort of payment agreement the founders had, were all left out of the original story. There are cases where what Mr. X did would have been justifiable. Either the OP was being very deceitful, or your friend Mr. X did a very poor job communicating his position.