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When founding teams avoid discussing failure

Our startup team used to finish each other's sentences and now we can barely get through a meeting without someone getting defensive. We all know the company is struggling but nobody wants to be the one to say out loud that we might not make it, so we just keep optimizing deck fonts and arguing about marketing copy while avoiding the real conversation.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The dream you built together has become a fragile thing none of you can bear to examine honestly.

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