> If you looked at their backgrounds, at least the CEO (OP) had previously started a fairly successful apparel company. It was not successful. It was an unknow

> If you looked at their backgrounds, at least the CEO (OP) had previously started a fairly successful apparel company. It was not successful. It was an unknown flop. > So to correct your analogy, this is like if Bob the video game software engineer was starting a video game startup. It was Bob, a professor of literature, who tried writing a tetris clone in college got to drawing pieces, who tried starting a video game company > 2) Many top fashion companies are built by men. In fact, H&M - your example - was founded by a man. In nineteen fourty seven. > I'm all for diversity, but your comment is overly harsh in tone and not back by substance. This is not about diversity. It is about a vegan starting a butcher shop and getting accolades for waxing about reasons for a failure.