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When business partners disagree on equity sharing and worker ownership

My co-founder and I started this company with shared values about worker ownership and now we're at the size where we need to decide how much equity to actually give employees and we're realizing we have very different ideas about what 'fair' means when our own financial futures are on the line.

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