Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why is it relevant that she's female?
Why is it not?
It's about as relevant as what size shoes she wears.
Wanelo: The First Million Users
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Re: Wanelo: The First Million Users
#32Look up their stats on quantcast and compete, tells a different story.
Re: Wanelo: The First Million Users
#33Non-tech and the first site was made using what? Her mind power? Wordpress?
That's what I wanted to ask. All that "single, female, non-tech" doesn't make much sense to me if a team of developers was hired to create this website.
And she takes credit for it personally.
Gotta promote the team members or it looks like they're replaceable cutouts.
Re: Wanelo: The First Million Users
#34Slide 8: no one cares. Slide 9: not interesting. Slide 10: 30k monthly uniques. What happened there? That is all I really care about.
Re: Wanelo: The First Million Users
#35Very interesting, although someone claims the history to be bogus.
I currently have a website that gets over 500k Uniques per month and over 5m pageviews a month, so it's interesting to see what the future could hold!
Re: Wanelo: The First Million Users
#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is it referencing her status as a founder(a single founder, versus having a co-founder)?
Well in joshbert's defense the original phrasing already says "single, female, non-technical founder with no team " which would make this interpretation slightly redundant, so I can understand why he read it that way.
The slides say she got a team...?
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#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's the real question. It's not like being a female is a handicap or something.
It isn't but VCs have been known to avoid female founders for fear of them not working as hard as men since 'they'll have a baby sometime' or some nonsense like that [1]. Also women face gender discrimination in the bay area. [2] source: [1] http://www.businessinsider.com/pregnant-founders-response-to... [2] http://valleywag.gawker.com/this-is-why-there-arent-enough-w...
It's ever since the pg incident and reinforced by the github gate, the valley is in a "see we welcome women, women are great and we've always loved them" mode. Folks are already calling it "gender washing."
Re: Wanelo: The First Million Users
#39This is an entirely bogus history. She had a tech co-founder and cut him out. I met him back in 2009. https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=8860093 Why lie about it?
You and this LinkedIn user don’t know anyone in common
:(
Re: Wanelo: The First Million Users
#40This is an entirely bogus history. She had a tech co-founder and cut him out. I met him back in 2009. https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=8860093 Why lie about it?
Thank you HN for instantly voting this up to the top.
A woman builds a big business from scratch and rather than wondering why it took so long for her to get funding we instantly latch on to a second-hand report that she might've had a falling out with someone before her site even started taking off.
Ignoring the fact that this isn't incompatible with the presentation at all or that there's plenty of male founders who we know pulled shitty moves in the beginning; why exactly did we vote this up this quickly?