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How teams navigate success stress and personality conflicts

Our startup team went through Y Combinator together and it bonded us but now that we're post-launch the intense pressure and sleep deprivation is bringing out everyone's worst traits. We're all committed to the company but we're starting to not like each other as people and that feels dangerous.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Shared achievement under extreme pressure can erode the very relationships that made the success possible.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with DBT for emotional dysregulation?”

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