My co-founder and I started this company with shared values about work-life balance and treating employees well, but now that we're scaling and facing real financial pressure, we're making decisions that contradict everything we said we believed in. We haven't acknowledged this shift directly and I can feel us both getting defensive whenever it comes up indirectly.
More people experience this than they realize.
The gap between stated values and actual decisions is creating unspoken tension and eroding the foundation of a partnership.
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