i&#x27;m the technical cofounder and my cofounder is the&#x27;business guy. my cofounder is going to the media and attaching his homelessness to his identity and it&#x27;s making me uncomfortable. he is really talking up the rags to riches story and wants to cultivate it. I associate this with poor form.<p>i associate homelessness with lack of skills and i want to keep my identity small. i&#x27;m known for being well read and I really dislke that my co founder is making the company identity into a gimicky thing that he is using to get past homelessness and talking up the homeless part of his identity too much. he is approaching the media and a film crew is coming to talk about us and i want to avoid this unnecessary attention and well, just actually do the fundamental work necessary to succeed. all this film crew stuff seems premature, too much fluffy stuff, i&#x27;m just interested in knocking it out of the park.<p>i have grounds to not want to be a part of this right?I want to keep our identity small. I feel like an asshole, but I feel it is necessary.<p>i&#x27;m 23 years younger than him. I grew up around his area and my friends live here and they&#x27;re going to think I&#x27;m unskilled. I am also more intelligent than him,  mentioning this is distasteful to me but he doesn&#x27;t handle complex reasoning well at times or bad news. There is a stereotype of a &#x27;business&#x27; guy getting the technical guy to do a lot of work for him and I don&#x27;t want to give off the image that i&#x27;m getting taken advantage of.<p>need to go to sleep now.<p>i was an employee that was promoted and got ten percent he has thirty but while me and my co-worker just signed our equity papers it&#x27;s not through yet and it took quite some time.  i&#x27;m not getting paid, put 4 months of full time work in this, but neither is my co-worker(who i like a lot and is quite intelligent, and 6 months younger than me)<p>i&#x27;m not homeless, live with my parents, and if they read it they will force me to quit.<p>tl;dr i&#x27;m afraid we&#x27;re going to have the image of unskilled individuals working here when we&#x27;re not. we&#x27;re capable of knocking it out of the park but the image that is being presented is gross to me.<p>we&#x27;re in the s.v. and i&#x27;m willing to meet with a trustworthy member of this community for quick advice.
Business co-founder making me uncomfortable