Is that biologically, psychologically and technically speaking possible?
Please stop posting trollish comments to HN.
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Can you fundraise in Silicon Valley while pregnant?
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#112This thinking in this thread is the reason women are leaving tech in droves.
Re: Can you fundraise in Silicon Valley while pregnant?
#113This thinking in this thread is the reason women are leaving tech in droves.
Re: Can you fundraise in Silicon Valley while pregnant?
#114Can you fundraise if you openly say that you have a time-intensive hobby that you will under no circumstances give up for working on your company? Thanks to modern contraceptive methods getting pregnant is a choice. The same as doing a time-intense hobby. If you would not finance someone who openly says that he/she will not give up his/her time-intense hobby for the company, isn't this the same as not financing peopl…
>Can you fundraise if you openly say that you have a >time-intensive hobby that you will under no circumstances >give up for working on your company? You mean like reading HN?
Even if your hobby is replying to all the people on HN who are Wrong On The Internet, that's still less time-intensive than having a kid.
Re: Can you fundraise in Silicon Valley while pregnant?
#115Can you fundraise if you openly say that you have a time-intensive hobby that you will under no circumstances give up for working on your company? Thanks to modern contraceptive methods getting pregnant is a choice. The same as doing a time-intense hobby. If you would not finance someone who openly says that he/she will not give up his/her time-intense hobby for the company, isn't this the same as not financing peopl…
>Can you fundraise if you openly say that you have a >time-intensive hobby that you will under no circumstances >give up for working on your company? You mean like reading HN?
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#116Earlier quoted context omitted.
> A man cannot go become a CEO if he's broke and needs to feed his family Your biases are showing. But really, I'm not sure what you're saying here. People living in partnership with others can raise children AND do other things. This is not "having it all", this is working hard to make your life what you want it to be.
> Your biases are showing. - As much as we want it, a man can never become pregnant. The woman will have to do the pregnancy part. - As much as we want it, a pregnant woman can never work at her optimal. The man will have to do the optimal working part. So, if the partnership desires a kid, it means pregnancy for the woman and for the man to provide stability in those times. Is this a personal bias or reality?
As much as we want it, a man can never understand how ignorant he sounds explaining pregnancy in the abstract.
Pregnancy is one of many factors that play into your idea of "optimal" performance, alongside experience, intelligence, drive, etc. My wife did a lot of physically demanding labor and was more effective at her job than many non-pregnant coworkers right up to the day before she gave birth.
Re: Can you fundraise in Silicon Valley while pregnant?
#117I recently discussed this with my girlfriend. I can only conclude that there are 2 sides to the story, let's call them 2 truths: Truth 1: No individual (regardless of sex) can run a startup as a CEO if they are incapacitated somehow Truth 2: Individuals (regardless of sex) need to prioritize. NOBODY can have it all. With that in mind, women need to understand that: 1. They will be incapacitated if they get pregnant 2…
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Re: Can you fundraise in Silicon Valley while pregnant?
#118I thought that money raising is for people who put all their effort into making a fast-growing company and need money to make the growth even faster. It's about choosing not having a life in return for the possibility for creating a big company. I have no problem with that person being a male or female. But I can't imagine any person (mom or dad) being able to put 15 hours a day to a company with the baby after the b…
Expecting anyone to do 15hrs of useful work for a startup in a day is just foolish. There is lots of data to show that most of that 15hrs is just going to be a damaging waste of time.
I would never invest in someone that naive.
Re: Can you fundraise in Silicon Valley while pregnant?
#119Earlier quoted context omitted.
"I think women make better caretakers. A father can stay home and be the caretaker, but I think a mother will have a more positive nurturing influence on the child's life if she is there as much as she can be." You can think that, but it is most certainly not going to be accepted as fact by the many caretaker fathers out there. Nor, I believe, can you take it for granted that mothers in heterosexual two-parent househ…
Yes. Nature and evolution itself tells us that its optimal to be raised by a mother and a father. To argue otherwise would be to argue against evolution.
Right... So when a male polar bear kills the cubs so the mother can mate again that's nature confirming your theory? Or when apes keep harems and kill or drive off competition, if you prefer primates? Or how primates with testicles as large as humans are never monogamous?
Re: Can you fundraise in Silicon Valley while pregnant?
#120I recently discussed this with my girlfriend. I can only conclude that there are 2 sides to the story, let's call them 2 truths: Truth 1: No individual (regardless of sex) can run a startup as a CEO if they are incapacitated somehow Truth 2: Individuals (regardless of sex) need to prioritize. NOBODY can have it all. With that in mind, women need to understand that: 1. They will be incapacitated if they get pregnant 2…
If you have any women in your life that you respect I suggest you try to explain to them what they "need to understand" and get some honest feedback. Because you sound like you're talking from a place of deep ignorance.