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How to maintain friendship within business partnerships

My co-founder and I have been best friends since college and we started this company because we work so well together, but now that we're actually running it, every business disagreement feels personal and every personal conversation feels like it might affect the company. We can't figure out how to be friends who are business partners without being business partners who used to be friends.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The integration of intimate and professional relationships creates a feedback loop where neither domain can remain pure.

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