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Ah, what assholes. I may yet have to write that piece about Jessica Livingston -- you know, the sole female co-founder of Y Combinator. (I keep hesitating to wr
by Mz 10y ago
Ah, what assholes. I may yet have to write that piece about Jessica Livingston -- you know, the sole female co-founder of Y Combinator. (I keep hesitating to write it because I am concerned about it being seen as gossip and as saying not nice things about people. Oh, ha ha. Compared to tripe like this, it would likely amount to ass kissing.)
The piece that everyone seems to fucking miss is that Jessica Livingston and Paul Graham were the original two and he soon brought on his previous cofounders from Via Web. So, really, a woman is about one half of the success story here. And everyone just ignores that while they bitch endlessly about sexism.
I will just leave this here for now:
http://paulgraham.com/jessica.html http://paulgraham.com/jessica.html
Can we talk about something else for a change? I am really tired of this old saw. My mother used to say "When you point fingers, three more are pointing back at you." I would like to know what constructive thing this article, its author and the publication it is in are doing to actually fix this while closing their piece with Silicon Valley is a remarkable place. But it is time for the boy’s club to grow up.
You first, dumb ass.
(So I did go ahead and clean up that draft about Jessica and posted it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14102279 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14102279)
- princeb 10y ago> everyone just ignores that while they bitch endlessly about sexism the economist is probably aware of the existence of female partners/co-founders; from the article: > 6% of partners at venture-capital firms are women > 40% of the top 100 venture-capital firms have a female partner charged with investing
- Mz 10y agoTitle: Y combinator, X chromosomes Sounds like a great lead in for "Hey, didja know that one half of the original team that actually founded this is really a woman who kind of isn't getting the credit she really deserves while people run around talking overly much about Da Menz." Furthermore, Y Combinator seems to do a fair amount of stuff in terms of promoting female founder conferences and participating in them, and they have a regular thing here on HN here lately where they do something like "Ask a female engineer." So the title is basically smearing Y Combinator for what all of SV is doing instead of actually recognizing what is going on here. It is sort of like saying "We are going to hang the only guy in town who is not a member of the KKK because he is white and we need a scapegoat."