If you want labor, you must pay for it. You can't pay for it with lottery tickets, also known as equity. You can't pay for it with exposure. You can't pay for

If you want labor, you must pay for it. You can't pay for it with lottery tickets, also known as equity. You can't pay for it with exposure. You can't pay for it with experience. You can only pay with cold hard cash. The landlord only accepts little pieces of paper with pictures of dead presidents on them. So if someone is going to work many hours a day, founder or otherwise, they need an absolute guarantee that they will receive many such pictures in exchange for that work. Period.