I have a small and relatively new video production company that I started with a friend. It's not even a real company, we have no paperwork or LLC or any of that but we do bring in enough money for this to be my only job (not enough for it to be HIS full time job though)
Our agreement is an 80-20 split with the potential of it eventually being up to 60-40 depending on how much the company is able to grow. But for now and the foreseeable future, I get 80 percent he gets 20. That's simply because I put in a lot more hours than he does and I'm the only one who knows anything about how to make a video, He's a sales and marketing guy. I do all the pre-production work, I do all the shooting, and all of the editing. He'll occasionally show up and help out on a shoot by holding a reflector, setting up some light stands, little things like that but he has no technical skills and for the majority of shoots it's just me.
He's a good salesman though and he's responsible for landing a few of our highest paying clients. We both say that he's the "sales and marketing guy" but it's pretty much just sales. He hasn't done anything that you could call "marketing". He's a good relationship builder too, the high paying clients he landed brought us back for higher paying and more exciting projects.
The problem is that he's incredibly difficult for me to work with. I know it's not all his fault or all my fault, I think our personalities being the way they are just naturally make it difficult for us to work together. To me he is way too uptight; to him I am way too laid back. And it would take too long for me to list all of our problems but I'll say that my main problem with him is that he is amazing at arguing and he's incredibly stubborn.
Sounds weird but he's really smart, he has a way with words and even if he knows he's wrong in an argument he'll keep going and stand his ground because he wants to see if he can "win" it. That's no exaggeration, he has admitted to me that he does that. Not all the time but sometimes. He has always loved arguing ever since I first met him in middle school. He argued with teachers, monitors, other kids, the principal. It really is his thing. He could have an argument/discussion all day long and still have energy to do whatever else. We used to talk for hours at a time when disagreed on something and it would take days/weeks to come to a resolution that usually favors him but I can't do that anymore. After just 20 minutes of arguing with him I'm mentally worn out. It's gotten to the point where he just stands his ground and quickly beats me into submission regardless of whether he is right or wrong with his ability to argue all day. Our original agreement was that I handle all the video side of things and he handled the business and client relationship side of things but it took me a year and a half to get him to take over email duties and reply to the clients. For a year and a half every time I asked if he could take over email duties it would turn into a huge argument. If i took the top 10 most heated arguments of my life, all 10 of them would be arguments that I had with him. Over little things like emailing clients.
I don't want to go on and on about all the problems. Basically, Every time I'm done talking to him, I am much more stressed than I was before talking to him. It's too much, and I'm gonna miss the things he brought to the table but I'd feel like the weight of the world is lifted off my shoulders if I didn't have to work with him anymore. Even though it's an 80-20 split it feels like he's my boss because of how he talks me and because of how he gets to have things his way with his willingness and ability to argue forever.
I want to end this working relationship without ending our friendship but I don't know how to do it. I'm more than happy to continue to give him 20% of the money anytime I get work from the clients that he landed but I don't know what else I can do to make it end somewhat smoothly. All i know is that I can't work with him anymore.
The tricky thing too is that I don't want this company to die, I want to continue it without him and I know I'll be fine because I'm already doing most of the work anyways and I've met someone in my field who is willing to be my mentor. This company that isn't even a company is pretty much everything to me, it's what I'd like to do forever. He made it clear that he wanted to work on other projects in the future and just wants to build this company up to a point where he can leave and collect residual income and maybe take on some sort of adviser role. I'm afraid that after asking him to leave the company, any further success I have with it will just create more bitterness.
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