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When startup founders face investor pressure to betray their stated values

My co-founder and I built our startup on values of worker empowerment, but now we're being pressured by investors to implement surveillance technologies that would monitor our employees in ways that completely contradict everything we said we stood for, and we're struggling with how to resist without losing funding we desperately need.

Juana
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More people experience this than they realize.

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Entrepreneurs must decide whether to maintain their integrity or surrender their principles to survive in a system that rewards compromise.

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