My co-founder and I started this company as equals but investors and clients consistently defer to him in meetings and assume he's the CEO even though we share that title, and when I've brought it up he says he doesn't see it happening and thinks I'm being oversensitive. We're at the point where this dynamic is affecting our partnership and our business decisions but we can't seem to have a productive conversation about it.
More people experience this than they realize.
Unacknowledged privilege is creating invisible hierarchies that one partner experiences daily while the other remains genuinely unaware.
“Where Are You with Privilege and its acknowledgment?”
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