I’ve been around HN for the better part of a decade, and really feeling like I could use the collective advice of the community. I'm using an anon account because of HN contacts irl. If you do recognize my story, I'd ask that you email me privately.

The short version of my story is that my father and I built a company together from essentially nothing when I was in middle school and we worked together through high school (~$1 million in yearly revenue) and college (~$3 million in yearly revenue).

When I would ask about maybe getting paid, my father would tell me that the company was going to be mine one day. That there was no sense in him paying me, because the company doing well was good for the me, and the work I did was creating a better company for myself. Would I want to take over a big company, or a smaller company?

Now an adult, I have no equity, and he's 100% in control. I have no leverage, and almost no voice in the company I created. Cut out by someone I trusted.

There's so much more to the story, but the text limit on HN posts wasn't enough to express it fully.

Here is the Full Version: https://pastebin.com/JDGUtT3Q