&gt; The reality is that you&#x27;re leaving a company that has &#x2F;no value&#x2F;<p>From the sound of it, that&#x27;s probably not even true...the company actually has negative value. The seed money wasn&#x27;t given as investment, it was a loan. It doesn&#x27;t sound like they&#x27;ve been able to create $10k of value to offset the liability of the loan. If the poster is able to walk away without having to pay back their share of that loan, they should probably count themselves lucky.