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When co-founders face gendered assumptions from investors

My co-founder and I started this company as equals but now that we're raising money, investors keep directing technical questions to me and business questions to him based on our genders, and we haven't figured out how to interrupt these patterns without making things awkward for everyone.

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What we've seen

External biases are reshaping internal partnership dynamics in ways that require coordinated resistance.

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