{"id":32499,"date":"2025-12-30T01:06:44","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T01:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=32499"},"modified":"2025-12-30T01:06:44","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T01:06:44","slug":"32499","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=32499","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ng-star-inserted\"><span class=\"ng-star-inserted\">By the time Meridian hit our Series B\u2014$185 million, led by Sequoia Capital\u2014I had learned something valuable. My family didn\u2019t need to know. They had made it abundantly clear where they thought my ceiling was. I didn\u2019t owe them updates on how thoroughly I had shattered it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ng-star-inserted\"><span class=\"ng-star-inserted\">At Thanksgiving two years ago, Marcus brought his new girlfriend, Amanda. Harvard Law. Corporate M&amp;A practice at\u00a0<\/span><strong class=\"ng-star-inserted\"><span class=\"ng-star-inserted\">Davis &amp; Polk<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"ng-star-inserted\">. Family money that went back four generations. She was polished to a high sheen, the kind of woman who woke up looking like a magazine cover.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ng-star-inserted\"><span class=\"ng-star-inserted\">\u201cAmanda just made senior associate,\u201d Marcus announced over the turkey, beaming. \u201cYoungest in her class.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ng-star-inserted\"><span class=\"ng-star-inserted\">\u201cThat\u2019s incredible!\u201d Mom gushed. \u201cWhat kind of law?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ng-star-inserted\"><span class=\"ng-star-inserted\">\u201cMergers and acquisitions,\u201d Amanda said, flashing a smile full of perfect, blinding teeth. \u201cWe handle major corporate transactions. Tech sector, mostly.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ng-star-inserted\"><span class=\"ng-star-inserted\">She turned to me, her expression shifting to polite condescension. \u201cWhat do you do, Sarah?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ng-star-inserted\"><span class=\"ng-star-inserted\">\u201cI work in tech,\u201d I said, stabbing a piece of sweet potato.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ng-star-inserted\"><span class=\"ng-star-inserted\">\u201cOh, fun. Which company?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ng-star-inserted\"><span class=\"ng-star-inserted\">\u201cA startup. Supply chain software.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=32500\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32065\" src=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/tap-here.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"173\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By the time Meridian hit our Series B\u2014$185 million, led by Sequoia Capital\u2014I had learned something valuable. My family didn\u2019t need to know. They had made it abundantly clear where they thought my ceiling was. I didn\u2019t owe them updates on how thoroughly I had shattered it. At Thanksgiving two years ago, Marcus brought his&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=32499\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32499"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32504,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32499\/revisions\/32504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}