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When co-founders disagree about company culture while building a team

My co-founder and I started this company with the same vision but now that we're hiring, we're realizing we have completely different ideas about what 'good culture' looks like and we're sending mixed messages to our team. We keep having the same circular conversation about values without getting anywhere.

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