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> Not sure why they put Melinda's gender as a handicap, it allowed her to get things handed to her on a platter by Bill. She is now loved and famous thanks to s
by pdpi 7y ago
> Not sure why they put Melinda's gender as a handicap, it allowed her to get things handed to her on a platter by Bill. She is now loved and famous thanks to spending Bill's money on charity without taking any of the downsides and hate related to starting a company and fiercely clawing yourself to the top like Bill did.
Take that sentiment. Now look at the Foundation, and think: Given that a lot of their charity work was her initiative, how many of the people she has to work with saw things from your perspective of "wife spending husband's money", instead of thinking about her in terms of an entrepreneur with strong financial backing? Overcoming that is part of the gender handicap at work.
- COGlory 7y agoPeople thinking you're spending your husbands billions is not exactly a handicap. At least not one I can take seriously after reading the top couple comments on this link.
- username90 7y agoCreating a charity which mainly spends money you were gifted and creating a profitable business with invested money are two totally different things.
- pdpi 7y agoI think it's perfectly legitimate to describe somebody who initiates and runs a charity, and who is focused on deploying that gifted money as effectively as possible, as an entrepreneur. You don't need to be profit-driven, you can have a different goal altogether.
- growlist 7y agoShe's not an entrepreneur by any stretch of the imagination.
- huangbong 7y agoTo even remotely compare someone starting a company with $0 from the ground up vs. someone spending tens of billions of existing dollars as a non-profit and classify them as the same level of entrepreneur is an insult to anyone who has ever started a company.
- malandrew 7y ago> thinking about her in terms of an entrepreneur with strong financial backing? That entrepreneurship is based entirely on dating and marriage to a heterosexual man. Yes, her gender wasn't the only criteria upon which Bill chose her as a mate, but it was a massive determining factor that without which she would not be his mate or be in this position in the first place. This isn't even about being a man or a woman. What matters is being attractive as a partner to someone else that has done the work to earn the resources they possess, and gender is statistically usually a big part of the partner selection criteria except when the person with resources is attracted to all genders.