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When business partners face pressure to compromise founding values

My co-founder and I started this company with strong values about worker equity and fair wages, but now that we're scaling we're facing pressure from investors to cut costs in ways that compromise what we said we stood for. We keep having the same circular conversation about whether we can afford our principles.

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You're navigating the tension between moral consistency and practical survival in a way that requires both of you to stay aligned.

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