I am being asked to become a co-founder of a startup. It's a 2019 startup with a decent idea targeted towards a particular section of society. They already have a decent userbase with 60k -70k monthly views on their youtube videos and 1M on the website. They recently launched an app and that has some 1K+ downloads.
They don't have any business model and are not planning to make one for a while. Revenues are generated from ads on youtube and website.
The existing team consists of content developers, business managers and video editors. They don't have any tech lead. All the tech part is done by either freelancer or in house developer.
The thing is I don't know any of them. They just found me on LinkedIn and simply asked me to become a co-founder and handle the technical part. This is the first time someone has asked me something like this.
Honestly, I will like to join them but I don't know how to figure out if something is sus. Why me? Like they can just ask someone they know. I think I don't even have the required experience.
EDIT: Thanks Guys! You saved my time. I just had a meeting with them and they were looking for some cheap labor. They just wanted someone to work on their app at a really low pay and joined the title of co-founder by giving a 1.5% stake.
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