Live data from Hacker News

Geeks Uncensored chat with Jessica Mah CEO and Founder of inDinero

ustream.tv

11–20 of 24 posts

Re: Geeks Uncensored chat with Jessica Mah CEO and Founder of inDinero

#11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

http://www.geeksuncensored.com/day/2010/10/16/ "...we decided to do this show as there's a lack of hot females talking about technology..." I'm assuming it's in jest?

true there are tons of hot successful women talking about technology, but most of them are LA based. We were talking about Silicon Valley.

I don't mean the lack of line, I mean the fact that you're seemingly focusing on that you're "hot successful women". Maybe I over estimate everyone, but I assumed the majority of people who'd be watching your show (and the interview with Jessica) would care about the contents and not you personally and that line was therefore meant as a tongue in cheek joke because the perceived idea is that the average tech viewer only cares about boobies.

I think the point ojbyrne is making is that your selling point is you're hot and are therefore inviting people to comment on that when really we should be commenting on the interview and therefore we're wrong to criticise those that do comment on your appearances etc because you're making that the focus.

Re: Geeks Uncensored chat with Jessica Mah CEO and Founder of inDinero

#12
post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not really a big fan of the comment either, but the tag line for "Geeks Uncensored" says "We are Smart, Sexy and ♥ talking about Tech, Social Media, Trends, Gadgets and everything Geeky." So "Sexy" and "Uncensored" - seems like they're the ones who are already trying to stay just this side of explicit.

http://www.geeksuncensored.com/day/2010/10/16/ "...we decided to do this show as there's a lack of hot females talking about technology..." I'm assuming it's in jest?

in response to your response: I personally don't understand why people make a big deal out of it either way/don't really care about the comments and I agree with what you're saying. We're trying to bring some spice back into tech interviews--something that, at times, can be presented in a boring way.

We think tech is a hot topic and we don't have any issues with making our show playful, interesting and casual.

If you want to watch serious Q&A type stuff, go for it- you're not our demographic. There's plenty of awesome content like that across the internet.

Re: Geeks Uncensored chat with Jessica Mah CEO and Founder of inDinero

#13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

http://www.geeksuncensored.com/day/2010/10/16/ "...we decided to do this show as there's a lack of hot females talking about technology..." I'm assuming it's in jest?

in response to your response: I personally don't understand why people make a big deal out of it either way/don't really care about the comments and I agree with what you're saying. We're trying to bring some spice back into tech interviews--something that, at times, can be presented in a boring way. We think tech is a hot topic and we don't have any issues with making our show playful, interesting and casual. If you…

Exactly.

Re: Geeks Uncensored chat with Jessica Mah CEO and Founder of inDinero

#14
post #7
post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is the type of asinine comment made in 'jest' that apparently makes so many women cautious about the tech community. It's not explicit enough to be harassment, but just bad enough to make a woman engineer in a professional setting with you feel uncomfortable, and want to actively avoid you.

Not really a big fan of the comment either, but the tag line for "Geeks Uncensored" says "We are Smart, Sexy and ♥ talking about Tech, Social Media, Trends, Gadgets and everything Geeky." So "Sexy" and "Uncensored" - seems like they're the ones who are already trying to stay just this side of explicit.

We should interview you about Digg. Yeah? :)

Really though - just saw your blurb in your hn profile. We have some free interview slots in February.

Re: Geeks Uncensored chat with Jessica Mah CEO and Founder of inDinero

#17
post #5
post #2

[deleted]

This is the type of asinine comment made in 'jest' that apparently makes so many women cautious about the tech community. It's not explicit enough to be harassment, but just bad enough to make a woman engineer in a professional setting with you feel uncomfortable, and want to actively avoid you.

This is the type of comment thread that makes HN really annoying: a whole thread in response to [deleted].

Re: Geeks Uncensored chat with Jessica Mah CEO and Founder of inDinero

#18
post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

[deleted]

I'm one of the interviewers for GU. We're fairly new to this and started the show just a few weeks ago to have conversational-style chats with other entrepreneurs in the valley. Any and all feedback is appreciated! Thanks. : ) Ana

Thanks for the show. Idea is good, I have 2 feedbacks 1. I agree with the sound quality comment. The echo made it annoying. 2. When I tune into an interview I want to mostly hear from the guest. I turned it off after I found that the interviewers were doing most of the talking. I understand that your aim is 'conversation-style' but most viewers are probably tuning in to hear from the guest.

Re: Geeks Uncensored chat with Jessica Mah CEO and Founder of inDinero

#19
post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

[deleted]

I'm one of the interviewers for GU. We're fairly new to this and started the show just a few weeks ago to have conversational-style chats with other entrepreneurs in the valley. Any and all feedback is appreciated! Thanks. : ) Ana

Best of luck! My suggestion besides the audio quality: 1. Please make sure that that the interviewers do not bang the table so often 2. The format with the interviewee between 2 people is very very awkward. Both interviewers often talk at the same time so Jessica has to keep looking from one to the other just back and forth. Distracting 3. Framing is too tight.

Again. Love the idea and hope you guys knock it out of the park!

Post reply on HN