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When co-founders' personal financial situations change pay equity

My co-founder and I are bootstrapped and barely paying ourselves anything, but she just got married to someone with a good salary while I'm still supporting myself entirely. We need to figure out if our equal pay approach still makes sense.

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Partners must decide whether external circumstances should influence their internal compensation philosophy.

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