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When your business partner's past actions create an ethical crisis for your shared venture

My business partner stole clients from our previous company when we left to start this one and I found out six months later, and now those clients are half our revenue and she says what's done is done and we should focus on the future, but I feel like our whole foundation is built on something unethical and I don't know how to move forward.

Juana
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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

They're trapped between the practical benefits of wrongdoing and the moral weight of building something on compromised ground.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Justice and forgiveness — the tension?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.