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When friendship and business partnership create competing loyalties

My co-founder and I started this company as friends but now every conversation feels like a negotiation and we've both started documenting our interactions in email instead of just talking and I realize I don't trust her the way I used to but I don't know if that's fair or if something real has changed.

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Your friendship with your co-founder has curdled into distrust, and you can't tell if that's fair.

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