Your co-founder wants to pivot. You don't. How do you handle it?
This is one of those founder nightmares nobody talks about until it happens.
You've spent 6 months building. Things are moving, but not fast enough for one of you. Your co-founder comes to you with "the new idea" completely different direction.
You believe in the current vision. They're losing faith.
Do you:
Follow their lead and pivot together?
Split and go separate ways?
Try to convince them to give it more time?
Compromise with a "hybrid" approach?
I'm curious how people navigate this. It's not just about the product it's about the relationship, sunk cost, and momentum.
Has anyone actually been through this? What happened?
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Termsy
I went through something like this in a service business I used to run.
My co-founder wanted scale while I wanted quality.
We failed to reach an agreement & we separated.
Looking back, I don't regret the decision, but I wish I had been more selective while choosing a co-founder.
Could have saved years of momentum from getting wasted.