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When business partners disagree on reinvestment versus taking profits

My business partner and I bootstrapped this company by living extremely frugally for three years and now that we're profitable they want to start taking larger distributions while I want to keep reinvesting everything and I think we're both burned out from delaying gratification but in completely different ways.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Two people who sacrificed together are discovering they have different breaking points for continued delayed gratification.

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Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Saving and the psychology of deferred gratification?”

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