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When co-founders drift from shared values during company growth

My co-founder and I started this company with shared values about worker ownership and ethical business practices, but now that we're growing we keep making compromises that feel like betrayals of what we said we stood for. We haven't talked directly about whether we're still the same people who made those original commitments.

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Scaling requires examining whether your foundational principles can evolve without losing their essence, or whether you're abandoning them entirely.

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