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When co-founders struggle to implement shared values at scale

My co-founder and I started this company with shared values about worker ownership and democratic decision-making, but as we've grown we keep defaulting to hierarchical structures because they're faster and neither of us knows how to build what we actually believe in.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The gap between espoused values and enacted systems reveals the difficulty of creating alternative structures without models or experience.

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