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When startup co-founders burn out pursuing operational perfectionism

My co-founder and I work such long hours trying to make everything perfect that we never have time to step back and see if we're building the right thing, and our relationship is suffering because we're both exhausted but neither of us wants to be the first to admit the pace is unsustainable. We started this company to have more freedom with our time and now we have less than we did at our corporate jobs.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Perfectionist work habits are consuming the very thing the partnership was meant to create - sustainable autonomy.

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