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Re: Wanelo: The First Million Users

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Post by nyrina »

AdamFernandez wrote: post #19
squigs25 wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why is it relevant that she's female?

Specifying characteristics of exemplary people, can serve as an encouraging example for others with those characteristics. Maybe another potential future female founder will read about her example, and decide to pursue the same path. Not everyone needs that, but sometimes it helps.

Which is a great thing, due to the massive lack of female founders in the tech world.

Males and females look at things differently, too, so there must be huge markets for female founders, who really understands women much better than males does.

This was a perfect example, too, as shopping is something the female population really... Excels at. :)

Re: Wanelo: The First Million Users

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Post by thedrbrian »

voicereasonish wrote: post #28
dogfood123 wrote: post #27

This 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?

Because that's how you get in the news.

And no self respecting tech news site will admit its wrong once it's got that ad revenue

Re: Wanelo: The First Million Users

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Post by mtrimpe »

ballard wrote: post #38
gdilla wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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."

Let's hope it becomes one of those 'fake it until you make it' stories then...

Re: Wanelo: The First Million Users

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Post by _delirium »

AdamFernandez wrote: post #19
squigs25 wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why is it relevant that she's female?

Specifying characteristics of exemplary people, can serve as an encouraging example for others with those characteristics. Maybe another potential future female founder will read about her example, and decide to pursue the same path. Not everyone needs that, but sometimes it helps.

It's also pretty common in headlines for all sorts of demographic characteristics. For example, just taking a random example from the HN search: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4830140 ("22-Year-Old Irish-Born Founder")

Re: Wanelo: The First Million Users

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Post by sosuke »

mtrimpe wrote: post #40
dogfood123 wrote: post #27

This 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 wh…

I think HN has a very low tolerance for bullshit, no matter what your background or situation is. If you had a tech co-founder, then parted ways with them before getting funding, then advertise yourself has being solo with no co-founder people are going to call you on it.

Re: Wanelo: The First Million Users

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Post by ballard »

eddd wrote: post #26
caio1982 wrote: post #14

Loved a particular slide about how they (she?) did it: "The right people: builders and get-shit-done-ers, pragmatic, non religious about tech, move fast, team over rockstars"

I saw a few projects where "developers" were not religious about tech.. they still using ftp for php files deployment, "BUT HEY! THE SHIT IS DONE!" :). I don't want be sarcastic, but i think every startup team should have at least one engineer who will know what to do, at every iteration of the project.

Yup. 'sama tweeted something similar about users not really caring about underlying tech. None of it matters if users don't love the net result. JFS - just fucking ship. Worry about delivering a compelling product, why you are building it and monetizing to stay fucking alive. Bikeshed on which testing framework to use another day.

Re: Wanelo: The First Million Users

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Post by esw »

NoodleIncident wrote: post #30
dogfood123 wrote: post #27

This 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?

Does anyone have evidence of this claim that doesn't require a LinkedIn account to view?

Try http://in.linkedin.com/in/sarvjeetahuja (works for me without being logged in to LinkedIn).

Re: Wanelo: The First Million Users

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Post by timbre »

pyduan wrote: post #18
AdamFernandez wrote: post #3

Earlier 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.

A solo founder can have a team (of non-founders), as the founder in this article does.
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