Summary List PlacementIn September 2019, Erica Johnson was called into a meeting at Kleiner Perkins. Inside, Mamoon Hamid booked a conference room and prepared to have an uncomfortable conversation. Hamid is one of Kleiner's partners and was the only outside board member in Johnson's mental health startup, Modern Health. That day, he found himself wedged between Johnson and her business partner, Alyson Watson. The young cofounders had been drifting apart for months, and their disagreements had begun to threaten the promising but fledgling two-year-old startup. Watson wanted a higher stake and felt Johnson wasn't pulling her weight.