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When business partners compromise their founding principles

My co-founder and I started our company because we believed we could build something that actually mattered, not just made money, but three years in we're making decisions that feel completely disconnected from those values and we keep justifying it as 'necessary for now.' We both see what's happening but talking about it feels like admitting we've failed at the thing that mattered most.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Shared ideals can become a source of mutual shame when practical pressures force gradual abandonment of core values.

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