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When business partners struggle with maintaining founding values as their company grows

My co-founder and I started this company because we wanted to build something ethical in tech, but now we're three years in and every decision feels like a compromise between our values and what investors want, and we've stopped talking about whether we're still the people we thought we were when we began this.

Juana
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More people experience this than they realize.

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Two people who built something together on shared principles are discovering that success requires them to become different kinds of professionals than they intended to be.

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