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When business partners discover conflicting values as stakes get higher

My co-founder and I have been friends since college but now that our startup is getting real traction, we're realizing we have completely different visions for what success looks like and how to treat our employees. We keep avoiding the hard conversations because we don't want to damage our friendship.

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Personal relationships can make it harder to address fundamental differences in values and vision when those differences actually matter most.

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