I first truly understood how different it was for women when a friend came home from an investor pitch and casually complained to another woman we lived with th

I first truly understood how different it was for women when a friend came home from an investor pitch and casually complained to another woman we lived with that it had been another investor more interested in a date than an investment. It was then that I found out it was common to have potential investors take female founders out for dinner, ostensibly to talk over the potential investment but in reality as an attempt to sleep with them. These women felt that they couldn't really tell anyone about it because they didn't want to poison the well of potential investment, so they just went on fundraising and being harassed. I don't know if things have changed much - it's been six years since I was out there, but from reading this I think it's likely continuing on just the same as it was then.