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When business partners face gendered assumptions from investors and clients

My co-founder and I bootstrapped this company together but now that we're raising money, investors keep directing technical questions to me and business questions to her, even though we both do both. We haven't figured out how to address it in the moment without making things awkward for everyone.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Partners must develop shared strategies for interrupting external biases while maintaining their professional relationships and business goals.

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