How ‘the Motherhood Penalty’ Plays Out for Startup Founders

My experience fundraising while pregnant made it clear that VCs should reflect the experience of the founders they purport to support

Roxanne Petraeus
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7 min readJul 30, 2020

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Midway through a call with a prominent venture capitalist last fall, he asked me, apropos of nothing, if I was pregnant. Previously, we’d been…

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Roxanne Petraeus
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Co-founder of Ethena, Army veteran, and pun appreciator

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