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I don't really like this article, in that I know of plenty of successful startups started by women or that had a lot of women involved during the early days. I

I don't really like this article, in that I know of plenty of successful startups started by women or that had a lot of women involved during the early days. In short, I reject the idea there is any kind of glass ceiling or whatnot, especially when "the idea" plus 3 knowledgeable people working out of a garage, is all you need.

tptacek 17y ago
There's definitely a pervasive strain of sexism running through our industry. I laughed at it right up until my wife tried to re-enter the workforce a few years after we got married.
- dschobel 17y ago
  There's sexism running through all of society. Finding it in a tech company is hardly a feat worth mentioning.
  - tptacek 17y ago
    It appears to be worse in the tech industry. Do I believe that VCs might discriminate against women engineering founders? Well, I can believe a lot of things about VCs.
bootload 17y ago
"... I don't really like this article, in that I know of plenty of successful startups started by women ..." Examples? Part of the problem is perception of avoidance and the other problem, Women tech founders are scarce.
- patrickgzill 17y ago
  In the pre-dotbomb days, there was Ravisent, which made DVD decoder software and hardware, they were later acquired by ST Micro. Yes, the main founders were 2 guys, but a lot of women were involved in the early days (when there were less than 25 employees), including the woman in her 40s who ran the procurement and scheduling for the hardware line; a senior VP in charge of all marketing who had previously been at ATT and Toshiba; and over half the sales team was composed of women. There was ArsDigita started by Phil Greenspun, Jin Choi and Tracy Adams, IIRC. I will sort of waffle a little bit here, in that there are many successful businesses I know of that are not on the going-public or being-acquired track. I will freely admit that I know of less "basic research" type companies that have women founders.
- starkfist 17y ago
  VMWare.
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  - bootload 17y ago
    "VMWare" Didn't know about that one. That would be http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane_Greene http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane_Greene
- hga 17y ago
  Cisco (a couple were the cofounders).

tptacek 17y ago

There's definitely a pervasive strain of sexism running through our industry. I laughed at it right up until my wife tried to re-enter the workforce a few years after we got married.

dschobel 17y ago
There's sexism running through all of society. Finding it in a tech company is hardly a feat worth mentioning.
- tptacek 17y ago
  It appears to be worse in the tech industry. Do I believe that VCs might discriminate against women engineering founders? Well, I can believe a lot of things about VCs.

bootload 17y ago

"... I don't really like this article, in that I know of plenty of successful startups started by women ..." Examples? Part of the problem is perception of avoidance and the other problem, Women tech founders are scarce.

patrickgzill 17y ago
In the pre-dotbomb days, there was Ravisent, which made DVD decoder software and hardware, they were later acquired by ST Micro. Yes, the main founders were 2 guys, but a lot of women were involved in the early days (when there were less than 25 employees), including the woman in her 40s who ran the procurement and scheduling for the hardware line; a senior VP in charge of all marketing who had previously been at ATT and Toshiba; and over half the sales team was composed of women. There was ArsDigita started by Phil Greenspun, Jin Choi and Tracy Adams, IIRC. I will sort of waffle a little bit here, in that there are many successful businesses I know of that are not on the going-public or being-acquired track. I will freely admit that I know of less "basic research" type companies that have women founders.
starkfist 17y ago
VMWare.
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- bootload 17y ago
  "VMWare" Didn't know about that one. That would be http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane_Greene http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane_Greene
hga 17y ago
Cisco (a couple were the cofounders).