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When contemplative technology startups face pressure to compromise Buddhist principles

My co-founder and I built our startup around Buddhist principles of technology design but investors keep pushing us toward features that increase engagement time and we're not sure how to stay true to contemplative values while building a viable business.

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The collision between contemplative intention and market demands tests whether Buddhist values can survive in commercial technology development or inevitably become corrupted by growth pressures.

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