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When your team's values conflict with survival needs

Our startup team keeps saying we want to build something that matters but when it comes to actual decisions we always choose the path that will get us funded fastest, even when it compromises our stated values. I feel complicit but I also need this job and I don't know how to bring up that we're not who we say we are.

Juana
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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A group is caught between their ideals and the economic realities that threaten their collective survival.

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