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Keep sharing about your work with precision on what you doing and how you doing. The more eye you will catch sooner or later you be spotted by great person will be intrested to join you himself. For equity sharing since product is not ready you will be seen as very initial stage and 5k users in 4 weeks on WhatsApp might not sound very good traction and so, you can consider him giving 40-50% for CTO and all the others things such as marketing, finance and operation will be handled by you. You can explore vesting and Clawback clause options to make sure co founder is trusted. Other things in your post which is missing is your business model and idea detail which is what one intrested person might be looking for.
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