Thank you for your reply. You make many good points. If you're a consultant ... I like being a consultant. I don't particularly have any latent strong interes

Thank you for your reply. You make many good points. If you're a consultant ... I like being a consultant. I don't particularly have any latent strong interest in being an entrepreneur. Do I sometimes think it'd be fun/cool to build something that winds up being worth millions? Sure, we all probably do. But it doesn't really drive me. I enjoy picking up projects, building new things, and then moving on. To put it another way, would you ordinarily take a contract where $100,000 was not payable for three to five years and only payable if the company was still around? Absolutely not. Basically the deal you are being offered is you pay $100,000 to someone who doesn't want to pay you now, on the expectation that at some nebulous time in the future they might want to pay you a big pile of money. That's how it feels, yes.