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Female founders who've had a great 2016

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Re: Female founders who've had a great 2016

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Post by dominotw »

Links to the lists

1. https://techcrunch.com/gallery/18-more-female-founders-whove...

2. https://techcrunch.com/gallery/21-female-founders-who-killed...

I looked up people from first list on linkedin to see what path they took to end up there. One commonality that immediately obvious is studying at Ivy league/private university.

Perhaps a more inspiring new year list would have been " where you are born doesn't seal your fate list", but thats not clickbait enough.

1. Alex Depledge - University of Nottingham and the University of Chicago

2. Minnie Ingersol - Stanford University and Harvard Business School

3. Tracy Young - California State University-Sacramento

4. Melody McCloskey - University of California, Davis

5. Robin Chase - MIT and harvard

6. Angie Nwandu - ?

7. Payal Kakadi - MIT

8. Maran Nelson - UT austin

9. Adi Tatarko - ??

10 . Christina Lomasney - Harvard and University of Washington

11. Piraye Beim - Cornell

12. Valerie Wagoner - Stanford

13. Hooi Ling Tan - Harvard and Bath

14. Maria Ressa - ?

15. Danielle Morrill - ?

Re: Female founders who've had a great 2016

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Post by akhilcacharya »

dominotw wrote: post #2

Links to the lists 1. https://techcrunch.com/gallery/18-more-female-founders-whove... 2. https://techcrunch.com/gallery/21-female-founders-who-killed... I looked up people from first list on linkedin to see what path they took to end up there. One commonality that immediately obvious is studying at Ivy league/private university. Perhaps a more inspiring new year list would have been " where you are born doesn't seal…

I couldn't agree more.

Sometimes it feels like upward mobility is limited in the very institutions we uphold as breaking those boundaries.

Re: Female founders who've had a great 2016

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Post by minimaxir »

dominotw wrote: post #2

Links to the lists 1. https://techcrunch.com/gallery/18-more-female-founders-whove... 2. https://techcrunch.com/gallery/21-female-founders-who-killed... I looked up people from first list on linkedin to see what path they took to end up there. One commonality that immediately obvious is studying at Ivy league/private university. Perhaps a more inspiring new year list would have been " where you are born doesn't seal…

Both of those linked lists are from 2015.

Yes, there is overlap.

Re: Female founders who've had a great 2016

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Post by blowski »

malloreon wrote: post #3

Will 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.

Re: Female founders who've had a great 2016

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Post by thesimpsons1022 »

why 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.

Re: Female founders who've had a great 2016

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Post by xkiwi »

I 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 is "run between it's leg, and bite it in its balls."

Re: Female founders who've had a great 2016

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Post by closeparen »

xkiwi wrote: post #9

I 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?

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