penicillin is cheap and gravity pulls the nut out as long as you take her for a walk before bedding. Some dudes actually like the flavor of the morning shift guys. 🤷♂️
It's all fun and games until the other shoe drops.
Spend long enough and the rose colored glasses come off. You'll be asked, you'll learn that you've been paying without even realizing it, you'll be in need of help and see how you're treated, give it time. Humans are humans and in a money based world, choosing to go to a developing nation where life is cheap and salaries are cheaper only increases the need for the searching eye. It'll land on you one day and slowly over time or swiftly, you'll see why so many find themselves the target and feeling like nothing more than an opportunity for those around them.
Well, let's see. At minimum you would have signed an equity shareholder agreement. So, your shares had the valuation you placed on them at that time.
Literally anything could have happened to your company valuation from then until now and those equity shares hold zero value unless you have a buyer willing to pay that amount for them. Legally, once that money went into the company escrow account, the funds were his to spend however he saw fit unless you signed a shareholder agreement requiring both parties to sign off on all expenditures.
Doubtful you have any of that and therefore, you're 200% screwed in the way of "getting back" your vested capital contributions.