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Scenario

When founding partners disagree about compromising vision for patient capital

My co-founder and I started our company with the vision of eventually taking patient capital to scale our social impact, but now that we're actually talking to impact investors, we're realizing they have very different definitions of success metrics than we do. We're not aligned on whether to adjust our vision to match what investors want or hold out for investors who match our original vision, and it's creating tension about what compromise means versus what selling out means.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Partners face the gap between their idealistic vision and the reality of how impact investors actually evaluate success.

Your guide for this
Zera
Zera works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Impact investing and patient capital?”

Peri

Peri can explain why this happens, help you decide if this is the right situation for you, and point toward the right journey or coach.

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