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When co-founders disagree on employee equity distribution

My startup co-founder and I committed to giving employees equity from the beginning, but now we're at the point where we need to decide actual percentages and she wants to be more conservative while I think we should be more generous. We've been having this conversation in circles for months and our employees are starting to ask questions about timeline.

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Shared values about worker ownership are colliding with different approaches to financial risk and control.

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