This Simple Chart Shows You How Privilege Operates

Think about your ‘slope’

Siri Srinivas
Forge
Published in
3 min readAug 12, 2020

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A South Asian female executive explaining strategy to her white male colleagues in a meeting.
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Throughout my career as an investor, I’ve met plenty of people (usually women) who, regardless of their levels of professional success, feel like interlopers in a play written for someone else. I include myself in that, too. I’ve battled my own insecurities, at times convincing myself that I only achieved what I have because of an error…

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Siri Srinivas
Forge
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Investing @drapervc. Former engineer; former journalist; full-time fan of technology startups.