Women Entrepreneurs Created a Fake Male Cofounder to Dodge Startup Sexism
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Re: Women Entrepreneurs Created a Fake Male Cofounder to Dodge Startup Sexism
#2An excellent story, and entirely relevant. I'm disappointed that this keeps getting flagged.
Re: Women Entrepreneurs Created a Fake Male Cofounder to Dodge Startup Sexism
#3An excellent story, and entirely relevant. I'm disappointed that this keeps getting flagged.
agree on all counts.
the flagging of this story reinforces what these entrepreneurs were up against.
Re: Women Entrepreneurs Created a Fake Male Cofounder to Dodge Startup Sexism
#4We've updated the link from https://apple.news/Aric4YYSmRzWy1eAlVj_Dyg which redirected to this.
Re: Women Entrepreneurs Created a Fake Male Cofounder to Dodge Startup Sexism
#5An excellent story, and entirely relevant. I'm disappointed that this keeps getting flagged.
agree on all counts. the flagging of this story reinforces what these entrepreneurs were up against.
This story was originally killed by the software because it was submitted with a link shortener.
Re: Women Entrepreneurs Created a Fake Male Cofounder to Dodge Startup Sexism
#6Re: Women Entrepreneurs Created a Fake Male Cofounder to Dodge Startup Sexism
#7Here is an interview with them, from July: http://www.dumdumzine.com/text-message-interview-with-witchs...
Their personalities seem pretty effervescent. This might also have contributed to the need to create a persona who just says, "OK, I need that status update."
Re: Women Entrepreneurs Created a Fake Male Cofounder to Dodge Startup Sexism
#8Taking a page out of Laura Holt's playbook. Brilliant!
Re: Women Entrepreneurs Created a Fake Male Cofounder to Dodge Startup Sexism
#9Re: Women Entrepreneurs Created a Fake Male Cofounder to Dodge Startup Sexism
#10Taking a page out of Laura Holt's playbook. Brilliant!
That was my first thought - but while it's a clever response to a problem, it's more sad that it's necessary and that it works.