My co-founder and I are building a tech company and we're both from families that were displaced by colonization but in different ways and different generations, and when we pitch to investors we keep having to decide how much of our story to tell and how to present ourselves as both credible in tech spaces and authentic to our values. We're getting mixed messages about what investors want to hear and we don't know how to stay true to ourselves.
More people experience this than they realize.
Two people are being forced to code-switch between survival in white-dominated professional spaces and integrity to their own cultural values and histories.
“Where Are You with The examined colonial subject?”
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