Another founder said that tensions between him and his cofounder harmed both the startup’s exit value and their personal relationship. “We finally managed to get an exit for the company, but it cost us a lot in our personal relationship and, worse, the outcome of the company to which we devoted years of our lives. Arguably the exit was substantially less than it might have been had we been of one mind or had we ‘fallen into line’ with one of us being dictator sooner.”
