> As you can imagine, this is highly unattractive to skilled engineers who know their worth. No one sane wants to leave a high-paying cushy job to work for (not with) a bossy guy while battling the already intense stressors of Entrepreneurship.

I can relate to that. I am creating a small product and more than the salary, I want to escape 9-5 because I want to exercise product and technical agency that I do not have in my current job, and going from that to not have an increased level of agency working for someone, especially for a co-founder.