How would you know? We all know investors who only have male-founded companies in their portfolios.
They haven't to date, right?
Sadly, I sometimes worry that explicit moves like this deter investors from working with female founders. If the risk is, "I have to watch every little thing I say/joke with a female founder lest I get blacklisted", if…
Small nit, but guessing this is crow's flight distance which doesn't equal path distance. Regardless, this still isn't surprising. Short rides happen all the time.
There is a difference between mistakes and errors of judgment and "gender-based harassment or discrimination". Someone may be harassed for a different reason than their gender. For example a personal vendetta or abuse…
We live in a society where secret detention is practiced. Where a relatively short time ago, we interned Japanese people. Who cares about your anti-depressants. A program like this perhaps isn't that big of a deal to a…
Not to be nitpicky, but NC did distinguish itself from Proposition 8 in banning civil unions and domestic partnerships, too. NC is a wonderful place, I was making the comment that now it's just a little harder to…
This isn't a political statement, it's a comment about culture as it relates to recruiting valuable and scarce talent. Startup culture tends to be highly meritocratic. It lends itself to openness toward who you are as…
How would you know? We all know investors who only have male-founded companies in their portfolios.
They haven't to date, right?
Sadly, I sometimes worry that explicit moves like this deter investors from working with female founders. If the risk is, "I have to watch every little thing I say/joke with a female founder lest I get blacklisted", if…
Small nit, but guessing this is crow's flight distance which doesn't equal path distance. Regardless, this still isn't surprising. Short rides happen all the time.
There is a difference between mistakes and errors of judgment and "gender-based harassment or discrimination". Someone may be harassed for a different reason than their gender. For example a personal vendetta or abuse…
We live in a society where secret detention is practiced. Where a relatively short time ago, we interned Japanese people. Who cares about your anti-depressants. A program like this perhaps isn't that big of a deal to a…
Not to be nitpicky, but NC did distinguish itself from Proposition 8 in banning civil unions and domestic partnerships, too. NC is a wonderful place, I was making the comment that now it's just a little harder to…
This isn't a political statement, it's a comment about culture as it relates to recruiting valuable and scarce talent. Startup culture tends to be highly meritocratic. It lends itself to openness toward who you are as…