My co-founder and I built our startup on values of transparency and worker ownership, but now that we're scaling we're both making compromises that feel necessary for survival but go against what we said we stood for. We haven't admitted to each other how far we've drifted from our original principles and I don't know if we're pragmatists or sellouts.
More people experience this than they realize.
Two people who built something together on shared principles are silently watching those principles erode under practical pressure.
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