Our startup team is majority women but we keep hiring senior advisors who are older white men because that's who has the connections and experience we need, and now our cap table and decision-making reflects exactly the power structure we thought we were disrupting. We're all uncomfortable with it but we also don't know how to build the company without those relationships.
More people experience this than they realize.
The systems you need to succeed are requiring you to participate in the very power structures you wanted to challenge, and there's no obvious path that doesn't involve either compromising your principles or your viability.
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