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How co-founders navigate reinvestment versus compensation decisions

My co-founder and I bootstrapped our startup for three years and now we're profitable but she wants to reinvest everything back into growth while I want to start paying ourselves decent salaries. The disagreement is really about whether we're building a lifestyle business or trying to create generational wealth and we've been avoiding naming that directly.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Successful entrepreneurs must reconcile different timelines and definitions of adequate reward for their efforts.

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