Your analysis is too rigid and could use the nuance numbers might provide.<p>If the developer executing the idea was paid a low sum in exchange for low equity (say, 75K + 0.1%) and market analysis revealed a much smaller market than anticipated, the developer may have rationally understood the situation to be exploitative.<p>In such a case, the numbers might reveal that higher equity (say, 75K + 20%) might make the situation would not only be equitable but potentially profitable.<p>You&#x27;re right to say that the developer breached the contract, sure.<p>However, having numbers might contextualize that breach of contract so that it could be read as a poorly-considered evasion of responsibility or a rational decision to leave a financially abusive and career-limiting contract.<p>EDIT: Readability. Add conjunctive adverb to last paragraph.