Female Founders
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Female Founders
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Re: Female Founders
#2I recently published a statistical analysis of the proportion of female founders who receive funding from VC firms and accelerators such as Y Combinator to male founders: https://medium.com/p/2613f58e5082
Year over year, the female participation in YC batches has been improving: http://i.imgur.com/MCLqUm3.jpg
Re: Female Founders
#3It's related to his earlier post "What I Didn't Say": http://paulgraham.com/wids.html
And the related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6986797
Re: Female Founders
#4"It's hard to argue I'm biased against female founders when I have a female cofounder myself."
No matter how the rest of the essay is, this honestly doesn't mean jack and insults the intelligence of his critics, no matter how off-the-mark they were. He goes on to note other, more meaningful statistics, which is great, but this sentence alone is kind of laughable.
Re: Female Founders
#5From the essay's footnotes:
> The 13% number is from a study we did ourselves
What 13% number? I don't see the number 13 mentioned anywhere else on the page. I suppose it's related to this line:
> In the current YC batch, 16 out of 68 companies, or 24%, have female founders. That's almost twice the rate at which VCs fund such companies
...but if so, it could be stated more explicitly.
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Re: Female Founders
#7I don't know about female founders, but I always thought that given the readership, pseudocode problems placed as job adverts in some of the puzzle magazines would get a lot of interesting candidates, many of them middle aged women who have been solving a variety of logic puzzles daily for decades, entirely for their own amusement. I bet some of them could code like demons, if given the impetus.
Re: Female Founders
#8"It's hard to argue I'm biased against female founders when I have a female cofounder myself." No matter how the rest of the essay is, this honestly doesn't mean jack and insults the intelligence of his critics, no matter how off-the-mark they were. He goes on to note other, more meaningful statistics, which is great, but this sentence alone is kind of laughable.
I agree. Isn't Jessica his wife?
edit: the downvote was predictable, although still disappointing. I was simply pointing out that picking your wife as a cofounder should not be used as proof that you are not biased against women. Honestly, PG's argument would be stronger as a whole if he removed that line from the essay.
Re: Female Founders
#9 Like mediocre people in any field, they're fighting
the last war, and the last war was won by Mark Zuckerberg.
Where does Zuckerberg stand merit wise? I see him in the news headlines often with his smiling picture. What makes him more clever than the rest of you.
Re: Female Founders
#10I don't know about female founders, but I always thought that given the readership, pseudocode problems placed as job adverts in some of the puzzle magazines would get a lot of interesting candidates, many of them middle aged women who have been solving a variety of logic puzzles daily for decades, entirely for their own amusement. I bet some of them could code like demons, if given the impetus.