When Equity Became the Argument: A Case Note
Open with the case. The argument was never about equity. The argument was about what equity was being asked to settle. Review this first to see the shape.
Decision Path
If you are facing co-founder conflict, start here.
Agree who decides what, work through a disagreement about direction, or find guidance for a serious dispute. Start with the part you need.
Start here
What are you trying to resolve?
A routine disagreement does not mean the partnership needs to end. Choose the guide that matches the issue.
Routine decisions or disputed rights?
For routine work, agree who decides, who gives input, and which choices need joint approval. Written decision roles record authority you already have; they cannot change ownership or override your governing agreements. If control, removal, a buyout, or legal rights are disputed, use those documents and qualified counsel before acting. The readings below explain those more serious situations.
For a serious partnership dispute.
How Do You Protect Yourself in a Founder Dispute?
The case shows the shape. This guide is the protective frame, written for someone who is in the dispute right now.
When a Business Partnership Becomes a Liability
The protective frame buys time. This essay names the threshold: when the partnership has crossed from fixable to structural.
When to Remove a Co-Founder: The Four Threshold Conditions
If business owner coaching surfaced a structural problem, the next question is the threshold conditions for removal. Four of them.
Removing a Co-Founder: A Case Note
And here is what the removal actually looked like. A $14M services business. Three years of disagreement. The options that worked and the ones that did not.
Should I Buy Out My Co-Founder?
Removal is one structure. Buyout is another. This guide names when the partnership has become expensive enough that buying control is cleaner than continuing ambiguity.
Partnership Agreements That Hold
Closing piece, written for the next partnership, not this one. What a partnership agreement that survives a real disagreement actually contains.
The cost the sequence makes visible
What waiting actually costs.
An unresolved partnership conflict compounds at every level. Decisions that should close stay open. Talent reviews the business and stops trusting senior judgment. Capital sees instability and prices it. The cost is not the conflict itself. The cost is the structural ambiguity that the conflict signals and that nobody has named yet.
After the sequence.
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