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It's much more likely that she was a well-connected, upper-crust WASP with lots of connections. When you have Kissinger, Bill Frist, and George P. Shulz as advi
by azernik 10y ago
It's much more likely that she was a well-connected, upper-crust WASP with lots of connections. When you have Kissinger, Bill Frist, and George P. Shulz as advisors, and a few VCs already on board (who it turned out were family friends), other investors and media tend to just assume everyone else has done the due diligence.
From second-hand experience, women (young and pretty or otherwise) have absolutely no trouble getting their ideas shot down, or getting dismissed in general as unserious.
- Mz 10y agoFrom second-hand experience, young pretty women have absolutely no trouble getting their ideas shot down. Getting your ideas shot down is not at all the same as getting good constructive feedback that helps you orient properly. It is actually pretty easy to chalk that kind of thing up to jealousy and hatefulness (and, thus, ignore it). "Haters gonna hate" and all that. I did consider further editing my original comment to clarify that detail. I have gotten plenty of negativity in my life, even quite ugly stuff. That is extremely different from someone who actually wants me to succeed telling me why my project will not fly and that I need to address those things in order to have any hope of succeeding. My adult sons can be counted on to give me that kind of constructive feedback. So far, I have mostly failed to get it from other men and it is mostly men who have the kind of knowledge I am interested in accessing.
- fern12 10y ago<it is mostly men who have the kind of knowledge I am interested in accessing. As a female, I actually find this kind of offensive. There are plenty of intelligent, capable women working in tech, if that is the field to which you are referring, as well as business, healthcare, etc.
- Mz 10y agoYou are entitled to your feelings. It is a factual statement. I am not going to retract it nor apologize for it.