The Tension
Naming what's been unspoken
You and your co-founder haven't agreed on anything important in weeks. The tension sits in every Slack message, every meeting, every decision that doesn't get made. Someone has to name it.
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The Co-Founder Conflict
→You and your co-founder see the company differently now. The conversation you've been avoiding is the one that will decide everything.
Part of the quest
Entrepreneurship & Pitching
→From telling your founder story to navigating a co-founder conflict — practice the high-stakes conversations that determine whether your company exists next year. Every founder gets tested in these moments. Practice yours before they arrive.
What you'll learn from The Tension
This scenario focuses on Naming what's been unspoken — a critical skill inside the broader career domain. You'll face a decision where the instinctive response is often the wrong one. After you make your choice, you'll see exactly what happened in the other person's head and why it mattered. The scenario is part of The Co-Founder Conflict, a full interactive story inside the Entrepreneurship & Pitching quest.
Skills you'll build in Entrepreneurship & Pitching
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You both say you want the company to succeed. You mean completely different things by that. The vision that brought you together is now the thing pulling you apart.
Six months in and nobody has talked about equity. One founder is full-time, one is part-time, one brought the idea. The longer you wait, the uglier this gets.
The conversation has arrived at the question neither of you wanted to reach — stay together, restructure the roles, or part ways. There is no option that doesn't hurt.
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