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Scenario

How to address a co-founder's behavior when personal and professional relationships overlap

My co-founder is brilliant and I trust his judgment completely but he's also becoming impossible to be around when things get stressful and I can see it affecting the team but I don't know how to address it without seeming like I'm attacking his character. We've been friends for ten years and business partners for three and I feel like I'm failing at both relationships.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Longstanding personal bonds can make essential professional feedback feel like betrayal, even when silence enables harm to others.

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