I always feel sad when I see these lists. I've always heard once we have female founders then we will see companies that are useful to women. But all those companies looks so useless to me. I think the problem is that they're targeted toward rich women. I hope someday people will create companies for poor women.
Female founders who've had a great 2016
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#12why is it so applauded that privileged women do well. Look at these people, from the most privileged backgrounds possible who worked at places like Mckinsey. Yet because they are women we somehow pretend they had it hard. Give us a list of people who aren't from the most privileged backgrounds possible, regardless of gender or race.
It's extra annoying that they've co-opted the Rosie the Riveter iconography. As if these people know anything about blue collar labor (male or female). The people on this list, Techcrunch publishing the list, and it showing up on the HN front-page basically sums up why I (and others) view "women in tech" as little more than class warfare against males who didn't have the privilege to go to Harvard.
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#14I lookup your list due to curiosity. So far I am on the third one, and I learned few thing from it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pKR212H5vQ #1 Y Combinator hosted a Female only founder conferences in the year of 2015. Where is the Male only founder conference? #2 She explain why her spirit animal is a beaver in the video 23:13. Later she explained how a small honey beaver can take down the lion king. The method i…
>Where is the Male only founder conference? TechCrunch Disrupt? [0] http://www.businessinsider.com/hbos-silicon-valley-had-diver...
There is a big differences between "Not enough" and "Female Only".
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#15I lookup your list due to curiosity. So far I am on the third one, and I learned few thing from it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pKR212H5vQ #1 Y Combinator hosted a Female only founder conferences in the year of 2015. Where is the Male only founder conference? #2 She explain why her spirit animal is a beaver in the video 23:13. Later she explained how a small honey beaver can take down the lion king. The method i…
See previous discussions about the Conference addressing this line of logic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7326418
Re: Female founders who've had a great 2016
#16Will techcrunch publish a similar list for non-white founders?
That's the problem with these kinds of lists - why not lists for gay founders and over-60s founders and disabled founders? Making lists of people in groups that suffer discrimination doesn't do any harm, but it's not clearly helpful either.
It's especially unhelpful to make lists of people who don't really suffer from discrimination but instead enjoy various privileges, such as women and certain minorities.
And the ones that _do_ suffer discrimination, such as the over 60s you mention, receive zero attention and don't have the support of a massive bureaucracy and hordes of virtue signalers.
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
>Where is the Male only founder conference? TechCrunch Disrupt? [0] http://www.businessinsider.com/hbos-silicon-valley-had-diver...
There is a big differences between "Not enough" and "Female Only". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diadksUjDm4
Social dynamics often make it so that "nearly all male" is actually not that different from "male only". If you have better ideas about fixing the inequality, a lot of people would be very interested.
I haven't watched your video, but "this female only conference is a good idea" does not mean "all female only events are always great ideas".
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#18"The stats are nowhere near where women need or deserve them to be"
Why would these women deserve success? Their backgrounds look like they've had everything handed to them from birth and yet we're supposed to root for them to have even more handouts? How about the thousands of poor founders who didn't raise VC because they weren't a culture fit?
I hope 2017 is the year when we put to rest all of the mainstream media pushing a feminist agenda and focus more on individuals regardless of their background and the cool things they can achieve through raw talent (not their parent's money).
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#19I always feel sad when I see these lists. I've always heard once we have female founders then we will see companies that are useful to women. But all those companies looks so useless to me. I think the problem is that they're targeted toward rich women. I hope someday people will create companies for poor women.
Most valley startups are targeting rich/privileged people as customers. They have money. I don't there is anything unique about this batch of companies in that regard.
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#20I always feel sad when I see these lists. I've always heard once we have female founders then we will see companies that are useful to women. But all those companies looks so useless to me. I think the problem is that they're targeted toward rich women. I hope someday people will create companies for poor women.
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