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When business partners face gendered investor dynamics

My co-founder and I started this company as equals but now that we're raising money, the investors keep directing all the technical questions to him and all the 'culture' questions to me. We haven't acknowledged that this is happening and I can feel it changing how we relate to each other.

Juana
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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

External power structures are reshaping your partnership in ways you haven't named together.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Identity and money — what wealth does to selfhood?”

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