I have been working as a specialist in my field for the past 6 years.

Recently, I lost my job. But I have top automation skills, especially for the home industry.

A man from the UK approached me. He talked to me for about 27 hours on Zoom in total, session after session.

He looked like a millionaire. He showed me his Silver American Card and said it has a $50,000 limit. Because i was explaining him about Ads later on for the growth.

At the end, he said, “Let’s build a Lead Generation company. You will find and verify emails. You will also handle all the fulfilment work. And I’ll do the investment with handling sales (emails tool cost around $300-$450 per month).

I said, “Okay, that’s fine.” I started searching for people because I already knew how to do the job.

He said his job was to talk to the client and convert them into sales.

But during the 23.5 hours of Zoom calls, he kept saying, “You only have to do fulfilment.”

In the last 3–4 hours, he said fulfilment means I have to do everything — email hunting, verifying, and handling the whole client project alone.

Then he offered me $750 as salary. He also said, “You are a partner. I’ll give you 5% equity.”

To be honest, I can earn more than that on Fiverr. I just regret that I never set up my freelance profiles properly.

Did I do the right thing?

What are your suggestions?