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When business partners clash over family-friendly versus growth-focused company culture

My business partner and I both have young children and we started this company to have more family flexibility but now we're successful enough that we need to hire employees and set real policies and we disagree about whether to prioritize parent-friendly benefits or focus on growth and profit.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The values that motivated starting a business together become complicated when translated into organizational policies that affect other people's livelihoods and careers.

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