My co-founder and I started this company because we both felt like outsiders in tech, but now that we're getting recognition and press coverage, she's embracing the 'successful entrepreneur' identity in ways that feel like she's leaving behind what made us connect in the first place. I don't know if I'm holding her back or if success is changing who we thought we were.
More people experience this than they realize.
Success is reshaping one partner's self-concept in ways that threaten the founding identity bond between them.
“Where Are You with Self-concept and how it forms?”
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