The Credentials Tax: why women prove it twice, and who's charging them

​Women founders spend the first part of every pitch proving they belong in the room. The cost doesn't stop at the funding round. It follows them into hiring, and too often women charge it to each other.

​Four women who have built from the inside, on what the credentials tax costs and how to stop paying it:

​Lauren Fitzpatrick Shanks, Founder and CEO of KeepWOL, on the funding room.

​Amelia Lin, Co-founder and President of VC Backed Moms, on what founders who are mothers get asked to prove, in the pitch and after it.

​Kristyn Castello, Founder of KHR Executive Advisory, on hiring for what the role delivers, not who looks the part.

​Zohra Sarwar Veach, Founder and CEO of Nu | Erraa, on why she built a system that judges the work, not the résumé.

​Moderated by Mariane Bekker, Director of Developer Relations at 1Password and founder of Founders Bay, a community of more than 200,000 AI builders.

​You'll leave with one thing each panelist does to stop charging the tax, and answers to your questions, founders first.

​Live for 60 minutes: 45 of conversation, 15 for your questions. Recorded, and every registrant gets the replay on Wednesday, Nov 18.

​Hosted by Nu | Erraa