Specialized therapy for Bay Area founders battling imposter syndrome—from a therapist who understands that building a company while doubting yourself is its own particular kind of suffering.
The Quick Takeaway
Imposter syndrome therapy for Bay Area founders addresses the persistent self-doubt, fear of exposure, and inability to internalize success that research shows affects up to 84% of entrepreneurs. Specialized treatment helps founders separate productive self-awareness from destructive self-doubt so they can lead with confidence without sacrificing the humility that makes them effective.
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Imposter Syndrome Therapy for Bay Area Founders: When Success Doesn’t Feel Like Yours
Complete Guide for Startup Founders and Tech Leaders
Last Updated: February, 2026
Who This Is For
Bay Area startup founders who feel like they’re one board meeting away from being “found out”
Tech CEOs and CTOs who attribute their success to luck, timing, or their team—never themselves
First-time founders managing venture capital expectations while privately doubting they belong in the room
Serial entrepreneurs who’ve exited successfully but still can’t shake the feeling it was a fluke
Founders from underrepresented backgrounds navigating imposter syndrome compounded by real systemic barriers
Anyone who needs a therapist who understands the specific psychology of building something from nothing in Silicon Valley
You closed the round, shipped the product, hit the milestone—and your first thought was “They’re going to figure out I have no idea what I’m doing.” That disconnect between what you’ve built and what you believe about yourself isn’t a personality flaw. It’s a clinical pattern with a name, and it’s remarkably common among founders. Here’s what actually works—and what the standard advice gets wrong.
Table of Contents
– What Is Imposter Syndrome and Why Does It Hit Bay Area Founders So Hard?
– Why Online Therapy Works for Startup Founders
– How Does Specialized Therapy Help Founders With Imposter Syndrome?
– Common Challenges We Address
– Evidence-Based Treatment Approaches
– How Much Does Founder-Focused Therapy Cost?
– What the Research Shows
– Frequently Asked Questions
– Ready to Lead Without the Constant Self-Doubt?
What Is Imposter Syndrome and Why Does It Hit Bay Area Founders So Hard?
Understanding the Founder's Paradox
Bay Area founders face a uniquely intensified version of imposter syndrome that most therapists don’t understand:
🦄 The Comparison Machine
In the Bay Area, your reference group isn’t average—it’s the most celebrated founders on Earth. When your mental benchmark is Zuckerberg’s trajectory or a YC batchmate who just raised Series C, even genuine success feels inadequate.
💰 The Fundraising Performance
Every pitch requires projecting unwavering confidence in a vision you’re still figuring out. The gap between the certainty you perform and the doubt you carry widens with each funding round, creating a chronic sense of being a fraud.
🧠 The Competence Paradox
The smarter and more self-aware you are, the more you recognize what you don’t know. Founders with the highest cognitive ability often experience the most intense imposter feelings—the very traits that make you effective also fuel your self-doubt.
🎭 The Vulnerability Tax
Admitting self-doubt to your co-founder, investors, or team feels existentially dangerous. You can’t tell the people who bet on you that you’re not sure you deserve their confidence—so the doubt stays locked inside, growing heavier.
🌐 The Cultural Amplifier
For founders from underrepresented backgrounds—women, people of color, immigrants, first-generation professionals—imposter syndrome intersects with real systemic barriers. When you’re the only person in the room who looks like you, distinguishing internal doubt from external bias becomes its own exhausting challenge.
📈 The Moving Goalpost
Each milestone that was supposed to prove you belong—the seed round, the first hire, product-market fit, Series A—just raises the stakes. Instead of building confidence, each success becomes more evidence of how much further you could fall when people “find out.”
Research from UCSF and UC Berkeley found that 72% of entrepreneurs are directly or indirectly affected by mental health concerns, with 49% reporting one or more lifetime mental health conditions—rates significantly higher than the general population.1
How Imposter Syndrome Uniquely Manifests in the Startup Ecosystem
Bay Area founders experience imposter syndrome through patterns that generic therapy rarely recognizes:
🎯 The Overwork Compensation Loop
You respond to self-doubt by working 80-hour weeks, convincing yourself that sheer effort will make the doubt go away. It doesn’t. Instead, exhaustion erodes the cognitive sharpness you need, which creates more mistakes, which feeds more self-doubt. Research shows this is one of the most common—and most destructive—responses to imposter feelings among entrepreneurs.
🚫 Decision Paralysis and Risk Avoidance
The fear of being exposed as incompetent makes every decision feel high-stakes. You second-guess product direction, delay pivots, or avoid bold moves that could accelerate growth—because failure would “prove” what you already suspect about yourself. The company pays for your psychological pattern.
🙈 Deflecting Credit and Ownership
When the product wins, it was the team. When the deal closes, it was luck or timing. You systematically strip yourself of agency over your own accomplishments—a pattern that can confuse your team, frustrate your co-founder, and undermine the authority you need to lead effectively.
🤐 Isolation Behind the Founder Persona
The Bay Area startup culture demands a specific performance: vision, certainty, resilience. The gap between this persona and your actual inner experience creates a kind of double life. You become skilled at projecting confidence while privately spiraling—and the loneliness of maintaining this split compounds the problem.
💊 Self-Medication and Numbing
The chronic anxiety of imposter syndrome doesn’t just stay in your head. Many founders manage it with alcohol, substances, compulsive exercise, or endless distraction. These coping mechanisms provide temporary relief while creating their own cascading problems—and they never touch the root cause.
🏚️ Relationship Erosion
Imposter syndrome at work bleeds into everything. You become emotionally unavailable to your partner, distant from friends, short-tempered with the people who matter most. The shame of feeling like a fraud makes genuine intimacy feel dangerous—because what if they see the “real” you too?
The Co-Founder's and Partner's Experience
If you’re the co-founder, partner, or close confidant of a founder struggling with imposter syndrome:
🤷 The Reassurance Paradox
You’ve tried telling them they’re brilliant, that they deserve this. It doesn’t stick. That’s because imposter syndrome filters out positive feedback. Knowing this isn’t about insufficient encouragement—it’s about how their brain processes success—can reduce your frustration.
😤 Bearing the Emotional Weight
As a co-founder or partner, you may be the only person who sees behind the mask. That role can become exhausting—serving as therapist, cheerleader, and sounding board while managing your own stress and responsibilities.
📉 Impact on the Company
A founder’s imposter syndrome affects the entire organization—through delayed decisions, risk avoidance, micromanagement born from anxiety, or hiring people who won’t challenge them. Encouraging professional support isn’t just personal—it’s a business imperative.
💬 What Actually Helps
Rather than trying to “fix” their self-doubt with reassurance, validate the difficulty of what they’re doing. Saying “what you’re carrying is genuinely hard” often lands better than “you’re amazing.” And encouraging professional support—without making it about being broken—can open the door.
🌱 Your Own Wellbeing Matters
Being close to someone with imposter syndrome takes a toll. Whether you’re a co-founder absorbing their anxiety or a partner watching them work themselves into the ground, you deserve support too. Don’t neglect your own mental health in service of theirs.
Why Online Therapy Works for Startup Founders
Practical Benefits of Online Sessions
Online therapy solves practical challenges that make traditional therapy nearly impossible for Bay Area founders:
🚀 Startup-Speed Scheduling
Available 7 days a week, 8 AM to 8 PM PST. Your schedule changes week to week—board meetings, investor calls, product launches. Online therapy lets you maintain consistency even when your calendar is chaos. No commute through Bay Area traffic between sessions and meetings.
🔒 Absolute Discretion
In a town where everyone knows everyone, being seen entering a therapist’s office can feel like a liability. Private-pay telehealth means no insurance records, no waiting room encounters, and no digital trail. Your investors, board, and team never need to know.
🌍 Location-Independent Support
Whether you’re at your SoMa office, a conference in Palo Alto, or working remotely from anywhere in California, your therapy continues uninterrupted. Consistency is critical for treating imposter syndrome—and online sessions make consistency actually possible.
How Does Specialized Therapy Help Founders With Imposter Syndrome?
Imposter syndrome isn’t just low self-esteem wearing a startup hoodie. It’s a specific psychological pattern where high-achieving individuals systematically fail to internalize their accomplishments, attributing success to luck, timing, charm, or other people’s efforts while attributing setbacks to personal deficiency. For Bay Area founders, this pattern operates within an ecosystem that both amplifies and conceals it.
The standard advice—”just remember your accomplishments” or “fake it till you make it”—doesn’t work because it misunderstands the mechanism. Imposter syndrome isn’t a knowledge problem (you know you’ve succeeded) or a confidence problem (you project confidence daily). It’s a processing problem: your brain systematically discounts evidence that contradicts your core belief about yourself.
Specialized therapy for founders addresses imposter syndrome at the structural level. Rather than trying to override your self-doubt with affirmations, we examine where these beliefs originated, how they became reinforced, and why success paradoxically strengthens rather than weakens them. For many founders, imposter feelings are rooted in early experiences—conditional approval from family, cultural messages about who “deserves” success, or early academic environments where they were the outsider.
The therapeutic work isn’t about eliminating self-doubt entirely. Some degree of uncertainty is actually adaptive for founders—it keeps you learning, checking your blind spots, and staying humble. The goal is to separate productive self-awareness from the destructive internal narrative that says you’re fundamentally not enough.
At CEREVITY, we understand the specific landscape of the Bay Area startup ecosystem. Our therapists won’t waste sessions asking you to explain what a cap table is, why your Series A matters, or what it feels like to miss a quarterly metric. That contextual understanding means we can focus on the psychological work from day one.
🧩 Rewiring the Attribution Pattern
We help you identify and challenge the systematic way you attribute success externally and failure internally. Over time, you develop a more accurate and balanced understanding of your role in your own achievements—not through forced positivity, but through genuine cognitive restructuring.
🛡️ Building Authentic Confidence
The confidence you project in pitch meetings is performative. Therapy helps you develop the real thing—an internal sense of competence that doesn’t require external validation to sustain. This kind of grounded confidence actually makes you a more effective leader, not a less humble one.
A systematic review published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine found that imposter syndrome prevalence varies from 9–82% depending on screening tools used, with the condition strongly correlated with increased anxiety, depression, and burnout—and identified as a stronger predictor of mental health issues than minority status stress alone.2
Creating Psychological Safety
Online therapy also creates different emotional dynamics that matter specifically for founders with imposter syndrome:
A Space Where the Mask Can Come Off
For founders who spend every waking hour performing competence and certainty, therapy may be the only space where you can say “I have no idea if I’m doing this right” without consequences. That honesty is where the real work begins—and online sessions from your private space make dropping the performance easier.
Breaking the Isolation Loop
Imposter syndrome thrives in isolation. Having a consistent therapeutic relationship with someone who knows your full story—not just the pitch deck version—disrupts the loneliness that amplifies self-doubt. For many founders, their therapist is the first person who sees all of them.
Real-Time Processing
A critical board meeting tomorrow? A termsheet that’s triggering doubt spirals? Online therapy allows you to process these in real time, developing strategies before the anxiety takes hold—rather than debriefing a week later when the emotional window has closed.
Intensive Session Options
CEREVITY offers 50-minute standard sessions, 90-minute extended sessions, and 3-hour intensive sessions. For founders in acute crisis or preparing for high-stakes moments, intensive sessions can accomplish deep work that would take weeks in a standard weekly format.
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Common Challenges We Address
🎭 “I Don’t Deserve to Be in This Room”
The pattern: You sit across from investors, partners, or industry leaders and feel like an impostor playing dress-up. You over-prepare obsessively, rehearse every possible question, and still feel like you’re one probing question away from exposure. After the meeting, you attribute any success to your preparation—never your actual competence.
What we address: We examine the core belief driving this experience—often rooted in early messages about who “belongs” in positions of power. Through psychodynamic exploration and cognitive restructuring, we help you develop an internal sense of legitimacy that doesn’t depend on constant external proof.
🔥 Burnout Disguised as Dedication
The pattern: You work around the clock—not because the company demands it, but because you’re trying to outrun the self-doubt. If you just work harder, ship faster, close more deals, maybe the feeling of being a fraud will finally go away. Instead, you’re exhausted, your judgment is impaired, and the burnout is accelerating the very mistakes that feed your imposter narrative.
What we address: We break the cycle by addressing the anxiety underneath the overwork. Using ACT and psychodynamic approaches, we help you tolerate uncertainty without compensating through unsustainable effort—so you can lead with strategic clarity rather than panicked productivity.
🧊 Emotional Shutdown and Avoidance
The pattern: You’ve learned to intellectualize everything—analyzing your anxiety as data rather than feeling it. You avoid situations that might trigger vulnerability: difficult team conversations, honest discussions with your partner, or acknowledging that the pressure is getting to you. The emotional numbness that protects you at work is destroying your relationships.
What we address: We gently challenge the intellectualization that keeps you safe but disconnected. Through narrative therapy and experiential techniques, we help you re-establish contact with your emotional experience—building the capacity for vulnerability that actually strengthens both your leadership and your relationships.
🌐 Cultural Identity and Belonging
The pattern: As a founder from an underrepresented background, your imposter syndrome is tangled with real experiences of being underestimated, overlooked, or tokenized. You can’t always distinguish between your internal doubt and the external bias—which makes the standard “just believe in yourself” advice feel dismissive and naive.
What we address: Dr. Gonzalez’s culturally informed approach honors the intersection of identity, systemic barriers, and personal psychology. We help you separate internalized bias from imposter syndrome, develop strategies for navigating real discrimination, and build a sense of belonging that doesn’t require you to erase any part of who you are.
⚡ Post-Funding Identity Crisis
The pattern: You raised the round, and instead of relief, you feel more terrified than ever. Now there are real expectations, real money, real consequences. The imposter feelings that were manageable when you were bootstrapping become paralyzing when millions of dollars carry your name. Every decision feels like it could expose you.
What we address: We help you process the identity shift that comes with scaling—from scrappy builder to responsible steward of capital. Through psychodynamic exploration, we address the deeper question: can you tolerate being someone who matters, whose decisions have real weight, without collapsing under the pressure of that responsibility?
💔 Success That Feels Empty
The pattern: You’ve achieved what you set out to achieve—maybe even exceeded it—and feel nothing. The exit, the recognition, the financial security hasn’t delivered the internal validation you expected. You’re left with a troubling question: if success doesn’t make you feel like enough, what will?
What we address: We explore the deeper needs that achievement was supposed to meet but couldn’t. This longer-term work often involves examining family-of-origin dynamics, cultural expectations around success, and developing a relationship with yourself that isn’t contingent on external accomplishment. It’s some of the most transformative work we do with founders.
Evidence-Based Treatment Approaches
We draw from multiple research-supported approaches:
Psychodynamic Therapy
Explores the unconscious roots of imposter feelings—often tracing back to early family dynamics, conditional approval, or formative experiences that created the belief you must constantly prove your worth. For founders whose self-doubt runs deeper than the current venture, psychodynamic work creates lasting shifts in how you relate to your own competence and success.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Rather than trying to eliminate imposter thoughts, ACT teaches you to notice them without being controlled by them. You learn to take bold action aligned with your values—even when the self-doubt is loud. This approach is particularly effective for founders because it doesn’t require you to “feel confident” before making important decisions.
Narrative Therapy
Examines the story you’ve constructed about yourself—the “I’m not really that smart,” the “I just got lucky,” the “anyone could have done this.” Narrative therapy helps you see these as stories, not facts, and construct richer, more accurate self-narratives that honor both your capabilities and your humanity.
Culturally Informed Practice for Bay Area Founders
The Bay Area startup ecosystem has its own culture—with specific norms around hustle, disruption, and the mythology of the lone genius founder. Our therapists understand how this culture amplifies imposter syndrome, and how identity factors like race, gender, immigration status, and socioeconomic background intersect with the founder experience. Less time explaining your world means more time doing the work that changes it.
A Stanford University systematic review found that impostor syndrome is significantly correlated with increased anxiety, depression, and reduced job performance—and that it is increasingly recognized as a key behavioral health condition impairing professional functioning and contributing to burnout across high-achievement populations.3
How Much Does Founder-Focused Therapy Cost?
Investment in Your Leadership and Wellbeing
At Cerevity, online therapy sessions are competitively priced. The investment includes:
– Licensed therapist specializing in high-achieving professionals and founders
– Evidence-based approaches proven effective for imposter syndrome
– Flexible online scheduling including evenings and weekends
– Complete privacy with no insurance involvement
– Deep understanding of startup culture and founder psychology
– Outcome tracking and progress measurement
The Cost of Imposter Syndrome Going Unaddressed
Consider what’s at stake when imposter syndrome goes unaddressed:
📉 Diminished Decision-Making
Every day you lead from self-doubt rather than clarity, your company pays the price. Delayed pivots, risk-averse product decisions, and hiring people who won’t challenge you are all downstream effects of untreated imposter syndrome. The business cost of hesitation at the founder level can be measured in millions.
🔥 Accelerated Burnout
The overwork compensation that imposter syndrome drives is a direct path to burnout. When you finally crash—and you will—the recovery takes longer and costs more than the therapy that could have prevented it. Some founders never fully come back.
💔 Relationship Destruction
Partners, friends, and family don’t leave because you’re a founder. They leave because you’ve become emotionally unavailable, chronically anxious, and unable to be present. Imposter syndrome doesn’t stay at the office—it follows you home and erodes the connections that sustain you.
🧠 Mental Health Escalation
Imposter syndrome doesn’t resolve itself—it escalates. Untreated, it frequently progresses to clinical anxiety, depression, substance use disorders, and in severe cases, suicidal ideation. Research shows founders are already at elevated risk for these conditions; imposter syndrome compounds that risk significantly.
Research published in Small Business Economics found that entrepreneurs reported significantly higher rates of depression (30%), ADHD (29%), substance use (12%), and bipolar disorder (11%) compared to the general population, with 32% reporting two or more concurrent mental health conditions.4
What the Research Shows
The research on imposter syndrome—particularly among entrepreneurs and high-achieving professionals—has expanded significantly in recent years, providing a clearer picture of both the problem and effective interventions.
Prevalence Among Entrepreneurs (Freeman et al., 2019): A landmark study conducted through UCSF and UC Berkeley examined 242 entrepreneurs and found that 72% were directly or indirectly affected by mental health concerns. Among the entrepreneur sample, 49% reported one or more lifetime mental health conditions—compared to significantly lower rates in the general population. The study found that 30% of entrepreneurs reported depression, 29% reported ADHD, and 32% reported having two or more concurrent mental health conditions—creating a complex landscape where imposter syndrome often co-occurs with other treatable conditions.
Systematic Review of Imposter Syndrome (Bravata et al., 2020): A comprehensive Stanford University systematic review published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine analyzed 62 studies on imposter syndrome. The review found that prevalence ranged from 9–82% depending on measurement tools, with the condition strongly correlated with anxiety, depression, and burnout. Critically, the review found that imposter syndrome was a stronger predictor of mental health issues than minority status stress alone—suggesting that for founders from underrepresented backgrounds, addressing imposter feelings directly is essential, not supplementary.
Entrepreneurial Wellbeing Data (2024): A survey of entrepreneur emotional wellbeing found that 31% of founders reported active imposter syndrome, with early-stage founders reporting significantly higher levels than experienced entrepreneurs. The data revealed that 74% of entrepreneurs with more than six years of experience reported high overall wellness, compared to only 57% of early-stage founders—suggesting that the trajectory can improve with the right support and experience, but that early intervention matters significantly.
The clinical evidence points to a clear conclusion: imposter syndrome among founders is common, measurable, consequential for both personal wellbeing and business outcomes, and treatable with appropriate therapeutic intervention.
“The founders who build the most enduring companies aren’t the ones who never doubt themselves—they’re the ones who’ve learned to lead clearly even when the doubt is present. That’s what effective therapy makes possible.”
Frequently Asked Questions
Therapy for founders is specialized mental health support designed for startup founders, tech leaders, and entrepreneurs. Unlike general therapy, our therapists understand the unique pressures of building a company—fundraising dynamics, co-founder relationships, the isolation of leadership, and the specific psychology of imposter syndrome in high-stakes environments. They won’t minimize your stress or suggest you simply “take a break.” They recognize that managing investor expectations, making decisions with incomplete information, and carrying the weight of your team’s livelihoods creates challenges that require a therapist who gets your world. CEREVITY provides this specialized support through secure telehealth across California.
At CEREVITY, standard 50-minute sessions are $175, extended 90-minute sessions are $300, and 3-hour intensive sessions are $525. We’re private-pay only, which means complete confidentiality with no insurance records. While this costs more than insurance copays, it provides flexibility, privacy, and specialized expertise that insurance-based therapy can’t offer.
Privacy is foundational to our practice. As a private-pay practice, your sessions never appear on insurance records or EOBs that could be seen by employers or family members. We use HIPAA-compliant video platforms, and you can attend sessions from anywhere with a private internet connection—your car, a hotel room, a private office. Scheduling is flexible, and appointments don’t need to appear on any shared calendars.
Whether specialized therapy is “worth it” depends on what unaddressed imposter syndrome is already costing you. Founders who ignore chronic self-doubt, burnout, or emotional shutdown often see consequences in their decision-making quality, leadership effectiveness, and fundraising performance—and in their marriages, health, sleep, and substance use. Specialized therapy helps you lead with clarity and confidence while actually enjoying the company you built — many clients say the ROI shows up in bolder decisions, better team dynamics, and avoiding the costly mistakes that come from leading on anxiety rather than vision.
Timeline varies based on what you’re working through. Many founders notice meaningful shifts within 4-6 sessions — reduced anxiety before high-stakes meetings, less catastrophic thinking, clearer decision-making. Deeper work on entrenched patterns like perfectionism driving overwork, identity fusion with your startup, or accumulated self-doubt rooted in early experiences typically unfolds over 3-6 months of consistent sessions. Some clients transition to monthly maintenance sessions once they’ve built a strong foundation. We track progress throughout and adjust our approach based on what’s actually working for you.
Yes. CEREVITY therapists specialize in high-achieving professionals and understand the realities of startup life—the roller coaster of fundraising, the pressure of burn rate, the complexity of co-founder dynamics, and the loneliness of being the person everyone looks to for answers. We understand that you can’t show weakness to your investors, that your board is watching your every move, and that generic stress management advice is useless when you’re deciding whether to pivot the company. Our approach is built for founders who need a therapist as sharp and direct as they are.
Ready to Lead Without the Constant Self-Doubt?
If you’re a Bay Area founder struggling with imposter syndrome, burnout, or the isolation of leadership, you don’t have to choose between building your company and taking care of yourself.
CEREVITY provides specialized, private-pay therapy that understands both the psychology of entrepreneurship and the unique pressures of the Bay Area startup ecosystem, with flexible scheduling, complete privacy, and practical approaches that fit the founder’s life.
Available by appointment 7 days a week, 8 AM to 8 PM (PST)

About Maria Gonzalez, Psy.D
Dr. Maria Gonzalez is a licensed clinical psychologist at CEREVITY, a boutique concierge therapy practice serving high-achieving professionals throughout California, New York, and Massachusetts. With specialized training in psychodynamic therapy, narrative therapy, and ACT, Dr. Gonzalez brings deep expertise in helping accomplished individuals navigate career transitions, identity questions, and the invisible burdens of high achievement.
Her work focuses on helping clients develop clarity during uncertainty, integrate the different parts of who they are, and build lives that honor both their ambitions and their deeper values. Dr. Gonzalez’s culturally informed approach creates space where nuance is welcome and where your full experience—professional, personal, and cultural—can be honored.
References
1. Freeman, M.A., Staudenmaier, P.J., Zisser, M.R., & Andresen, L.A. (2019). The prevalence and co-occurrence of psychiatric conditions among entrepreneurs and their families. Small Business Economics, 53(2), 323–342. Retrieved from https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11187-018-0059-8
2. Bravata, D.M., Watts, S.A., Keefer, A.L., et al. (2020). Prevalence, predictors, and treatment of impostor syndrome: A systematic review. Journal of General Internal Medicine, 35(4), 1252–1275. Retrieved from https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7174434/
3. Clance, P.R. & Imes, S.A. (1978). The imposter phenomenon in high achieving women: Dynamics and therapeutic intervention. Psychotherapy: Theory, Research & Practice, 15(3), 241–247.
4. California Management Review, UC Berkeley. (2019). The dark side of innovation: The youthful struggle to maintain mental well-being. Retrieved from https://cmr.berkeley.edu/2019/03/mental-health/
5. Emotional Wellbeing of Entrepreneurs Survey. (2024). Imposter syndrome affects 31% of entrepreneurs, with early-stage founders reporting significantly higher levels. Retrieved from https://www.storyboard18.com/brand-makers/entrepreneurial-stress-31-of-founders-suffer-from-imposter-syndrome-survey-reveals-49809.htm
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