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When business partners drift from their original mission while scaling

My co-founder and I started this company because we believed in making technology more accessible, but now that we're scaling we're making compromises that feel like we're becoming exactly what we wanted to disrupt. We haven't talked about whether we're both seeing this the same way or if one of us has changed more than the other.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Success is forcing you to confront whether your shared values were real or just convenient when you had less to lose.

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