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diff --git a/content/posts/2026/the-business-partner-split/index.md b/content/posts/2026/the-business-partner-split/index.md index c9b2d5b..9ba7317 100644 --- a/content/posts/2026/the-business-partner-split/index.md +++ b/content/posts/2026/the-business-partner-split/index.md @@ -1,17 +1,16 @@ --- title: "The business partner split" -slug: the-business-partner-split pubDate: 2026-04-05T20:04:48.000Z updatedDate: 2026-04-05T20:04:48.000Z draft: false excerpt: "Eight months. That is how long the business partner was involved before he tried to restructure the entire operation around himself. He joined with vague roles. He made decisions in … Read more" categories: - - { name: BTS, slug: bts } + - BTS tags: - - { name: format-long-form, slug: format-long-form } - - { name: legal, slug: legal } - - { name: partnerships, slug: partnerships } - - { name: tone-reflective, slug: tone-reflective } + - format-long-form + - legal + - partnerships + - tone-reflective featured: src: https://cdn.slist.net/posts/the-business-partner-split/cover.png alt: "Chess king standing among fallen pieces symbolizing business power struggle"content: rewrite image URLs from slist.net/wp-content to cdn.slist.net/posts/<slug>/
diff --git a/content/posts/2026/the-business-partner-split/index.md b/content/posts/2026/the-business-partner-split/index.md index 5355a6d..c9b2d5b 100644 --- a/content/posts/2026/the-business-partner-split/index.md +++ b/content/posts/2026/the-business-partner-split/index.md @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ tags: - { name: partnerships, slug: partnerships } - { name: tone-reflective, slug: tone-reflective } featured: - src: https://slist.net/wp-content/uploads/ai_69d2a753d458f0.02144637.png + src: https://cdn.slist.net/posts/the-business-partner-split/cover.png alt: "Chess king standing among fallen pieces symbolizing business power struggle" legacy_wp_id: 16109 ---fix(web): point upload URLs at slist.net (cdn.slist.net not wired up yet)
diff --git a/content/posts/2026/the-business-partner-split/index.md b/content/posts/2026/the-business-partner-split/index.md index ecec80e..5355a6d 100644 --- a/content/posts/2026/the-business-partner-split/index.md +++ b/content/posts/2026/the-business-partner-split/index.md @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ tags: - { name: partnerships, slug: partnerships } - { name: tone-reflective, slug: tone-reflective } featured: - src: https://cdn.slist.net/ai_69d2a753d458f0.02144637.png + src: https://slist.net/wp-content/uploads/ai_69d2a753d458f0.02144637.png alt: "Chess king standing among fallen pieces symbolizing business power struggle" legacy_wp_id: 16109 ---feat(web): visually mirror slist.net blog (index + single post)
diff --git a/content/posts/2026/the-business-partner-split/index.md b/content/posts/2026/the-business-partner-split/index.md index 5c03e82..ecec80e 100644 --- a/content/posts/2026/the-business-partner-split/index.md +++ b/content/posts/2026/the-business-partner-split/index.md @@ -4,6 +4,17 @@ slug: the-business-partner-split pubDate: 2026-04-05T20:04:48.000Z updatedDate: 2026-04-05T20:04:48.000Z draft: false +excerpt: "Eight months. That is how long the business partner was involved before he tried to restructure the entire operation around himself. He joined with vague roles. He made decisions in … Read more" +categories: + - { name: BTS, slug: bts } +tags: + - { name: format-long-form, slug: format-long-form } + - { name: legal, slug: legal } + - { name: partnerships, slug: partnerships } + - { name: tone-reflective, slug: tone-reflective } +featured: + src: https://cdn.slist.net/ai_69d2a753d458f0.02144637.png + alt: "Chess king standing among fallen pieces symbolizing business power struggle" legacy_wp_id: 16109 --- Eight months. That is how long the business partner was involved before he tried to restructure the entire operation around himself. He joined with vague roles. He made decisions in group calls I was not invited to. He overpaid team members to build a voting bloc. He introduced democratic structures that I never agreed to and that served one purpose: diluting founder authority until the founder could be outvoted on his own project.feat(web): full posts+pages sync, browseable UI, curated pages allowlist
diff --git a/content/posts/2026/the-business-partner-split/index.md b/content/posts/2026/the-business-partner-split/index.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5c03e82 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/posts/2026/the-business-partner-split/index.md @@ -0,0 +1,43 @@ +--- +title: "The business partner split" +slug: the-business-partner-split +pubDate: 2026-04-05T20:04:48.000Z +updatedDate: 2026-04-05T20:04:48.000Z +draft: false +legacy_wp_id: 16109 +--- +Eight months. That is how long the business partner was involved before he tried to restructure the entire operation around himself. He joined with vague roles. He made decisions in group calls I was not invited to. He overpaid team members to build a voting bloc. He introduced democratic structures that I never agreed to and that served one purpose: diluting founder authority until the founder could be outvoted on his own project. + +Too much democracy is a problem. + +## How it happened + +I am usually a passive person, just to see how far people will push boundaries. This is not weakness. It is strategic observation — I watch people reveal themselves before acting. The partner revealed himself across several months of incremental power grabs: hiring people without my approval, creating organizational votes on decisions that were always founder prerogatives, building relationships with team members that bypassed me entirely. + +At the events, I had full control. All bookings ran through me. All venue contracts had my name. All ticketing was on my accounts. All digital infrastructure — social media, domains, email lists, CRM, Posh — was under my login credentials. The partner’s tangible contribution was a bank account with roughly a thousand dollars in it. + +At some point I decided I could do better by myself. I consulted brand and tax lawyers before executing. The split was clean because I controlled all digital infrastructure. No contracts had been signed between us — which, in retrospect, was the luckiest structural detail of the entire partnership. Started a new LLC. Continued operating without missing a single event. + +## The lesson + +The partner did not want to do any of the DM work or the non-automatable operational work. He wanted the upside of a growing brand without the unglamorous labor that makes the brand grow. This is the pattern I have seen in every failed partnership in the underground scene: one person does the work, the other person builds the narrative that they are essential. +Diff truncated (50 lines total). View full commit on GitHub →
