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It's a C-Corp. (Edited: made an error and said S-Corp earlier) I'm not 100% familiar with bankruptcy, but I'm assuming it'd damage my name as well as my co-founder's, as well as going into stuff I don't want to get into (court, etc.)

Rather have a way to pay back this $6k.

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I don't understand. You're in USA? It is supposed that you can fail in USA. That's capitalism!. Why do you want to pay those debts? Your company is bankrupt and it has to be declared bankrupt then go into liquidation in order creditors recover their money. Those are the rules of this game.

If it's an S-Corp then you are protected personally - you don't necessarily need to file bankruptcy but I also wouldn't pour anymore of your money into it if it is jeopardizing your personal finances. Talk to the vendors, explain the situation and then talk to your co-founder and come up with a plan to pay it off through the company (consulting, selling assets, etc)

You are protected under a C-Corp, unless they can pierce the corporate veil in court (unlikely if you didn't do anything you weren't supposed to do) you can walk away and the only assets any of the creditors can go after are those of the company. All of your personal assets are free and clear.

> My co-founder owns a majority of the company

Minority shareholder, so he's protected anyway, no way this could be laid at his private door, unless there is outright fraud on his account.

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