Equity dilution is line-item math. Founder burnout in a retail-focused scale-up operating across dozens of locations is an actuarial person walking toward a cliff. Everyone is so obsessed with holding the wheel nobody checks the rearview. Nobody gets to pretend martyrdom was the plan.

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