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When friends become business partners and money complicates everything

My best friend and I started a business together three years ago and now we're successful enough that we need to make real decisions about equity and roles but we keep avoiding the conversation because we're afraid it will ruin our friendship. Every time one of us brings it up, the other one changes the subject.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Success is forcing a reckoning between friendship and business partnership that both people are avoiding out of fear.

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