Periagoge
Scenario

How startup partnerships navigate pressure to replicate extractive business models

My co-founder and I built our tech startup in a developing country to 'create local opportunities' but investors keep pushing us toward models that extract value back to wealthy countries, and we're split on whether to resist or adapt.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Founders who intended to create equitable opportunities face systemic pressure to reproduce extractive relationships.

Your guide for this
Zera
Zera works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Colonialism and persistent wealth inequality?”

Peri

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