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When business partners disagree about staying true to founding values while scaling

My co-founder and I started this company with shared values about worker equity and fair compensation, but now that we're scaling, I want to implement profit-sharing and they're worried about investor reactions and maintaining control. We keep having the same circular conversations where we both feel unheard.

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Two people who share core values are discovering that translating those values into practice requires navigating competing pressures and fears they haven't fully acknowledged with each other.

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