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When social impact partners clash over business ethics

My co-founder and I started this social impact company because we both cared about economic inequality, but as we've grown we've realized we have completely different ideas about what responsible business practices actually look like. I want to prioritize worker ownership and she thinks that's naive given our funding structure, and we're starting to make decisions that feel like compromises nobody believes in.

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