&gt; The third option is for her to only get the brand<p>Don&#x27;t worry too much about that, there is no brand.<p>It also doesn&#x27;t matter who came up with what idea, that&#x27;s completely irrelevant for this context.<p>Is the loan owed by the corporation or by her personally? I&#x27;m guessing it&#x27;s on her head to pay that back.<p>You&#x27;re very likely going to have to walk away with nothing material, if you plan to walk away now. Rather than literally nothing, hopefully you learned something.<p>I&#x27;d suggest that your best possible options are to either walk away completely (probably your best bet), or to negotiate your equity down substantially and let your co-founder know that you would like to retain a modest stake in exchange for all the work you put in. She is going to be putting in the work going forward, it&#x27;s unlikely she&#x27;ll be ok with you retaining your full co-founder stake if you&#x27;re going to be gone this early into the venture (meaning it&#x27;s an extra incentive for her to close the corporation and move on, given the present stage of the company, if she can&#x27;t reduce your equity).<p>If you&#x27;re really confident you have something valuable in the corporation (it doesn&#x27;t sound like it based on what you&#x27;ve described, it sounds like it&#x27;s extremely early), then talk to a lawyer.