>>...My partner, being the CEO, would decide on my salary...
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>So to whom was your partner accountable?
>Who decided on his salary?

He, himself - but there was I and the junior partner (split was 40:40:20) who could fire him - which he knew wouldn't happen, because nobody else wanted to be the CEO anyway. We could object over his salary anytime, and we insisted on receiving monthly sheets on how the company was doing.

>Did he invest more [of this time/money/resources etc....) into the company than you?

We agreed we were equal partners, in the contract. The junior partner came in later, and we all agreed to the new split of ownership. No problem there.

And it wasn't his salary that was the problem. We had many more other problems, like being in a wrong country and everything that followed from that. That's why I said that this attitude that bossing was six times more worthy than programming was only eleventh reason why I moved here. But it was pretty much the second reason why I resigned as a boss and went back to just programming. The first was that I didn't like what I was supposed to do. And he took over that part of the work and didn't give himself a raise for that.