news.ycombinator.com• Sep 27, 2023• 1 min read
Ask HN: Broke up with cofounder. Can I use remaining money to pay our devs?I worked with my cofounder for 6 months on a B2B product. And we broke up 2 months ago. We only raised 50k from angel investors and still have around 35k of it in the company's account. Over the last 4 months working together, we used overseas contractors to develop the early MVP and product demo. We owe them around 26k for that work. Can I use the remaining company funds to pay them?Under normal circumstances, this would be a no-brainer. But there are some details that can make it trickier. My ex-co-founder has mental health issues I wasn't aware of when we started working together (we met at a founders meetup in SF and he seemed pretty normal by then). I politely decided to stop working with him after finding out and hearing horror stories from mutual connections and his previous employers (lawsuits, threats, etc). After I broke up with him, he became a completely different person: he tried to contact the university I graduated from to get my title revoked, tried to get me fired from
