My co-founder and I built this company on shared values but now that we're scaling we're making compromises that feel like betrayals of what we said we stood for. We keep justifying each decision individually but I can see us becoming something we said we'd never become.
More people experience this than they realize.
The pressure to scale is forcing you to choose between your principles and your survival, and you're losing clarity about which compromises are strategic and which are soul-killing.
“Where Are You with Identity and community — who we are in belonging?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.