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When business partners drift apart on core values during growth

My co-founder and I started this company with the same values but as we've grown we're making compromises that feel necessary for survival but wrong for our souls and we keep avoiding the conversation about whether we're still the people who should be running this thing. We used to finish each other's sentences about what mattered and now we're scheduling around the hard topics.

Juana
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Two people who built something together are discovering they've changed in different directions under pressure, but haven't reckoned with what that means for their shared future.

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