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When peer groups develop hidden hierarchies that undermine genuine connection

Our startup cohort has been meeting for eight months and we've developed this unspoken hierarchy based on funding rounds and growth metrics and everyone pretends it doesn't exist but it absolutely shapes every conversation. I want the real support we used to give each other but I don't know how to get past this weird status game we're all playing.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Your peer group has turned into a status contest instead of the real support it used to be.

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