Tracy Lawrence: Believing non-founders cannot understand founder struggles is shame-driven
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Tracy Lawrence discusses overcoming the self-imposed isolation and shame founders experience during difficult company fundraising periods.
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“I sort of felt like I retreated into a shell, and that was a self-created and self-declared shell of, oh, other people can't understand me outside of me building a company because this is uniquely difficult or challenging. Which also isn't true, as I know now, but I think it was just more of a feeling of shame than anything else.”
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