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> I heavily prioritized male investors. Every time a female investor converted, I asked them to help me find male investors. Does the above statement seem bigo

> I heavily prioritized male investors. Every time a female investor converted, I asked them to help me find male investors. Does the above statement seem bigoted?

treeman79 5y ago
Pragmatic probably. Might just be easier. Over decades I’ve Seen lots of sales people target demographics in illegal ways. Mostly insurance and age. Basically impossible to prove unless your put it in writing. Still one does normally advertise such things.
devsegal 5y ago
> I heavily prioritized female investors. Every time a (male) investor converted, I asked them to help me find female investors. This is the text I'm seeing on my chrome /mobile android browser, would be funny if we were being shown different versions, but it seems as if you might have made a mistake there.
- wrycoder 5y ago
  I heavily prioritized female investors. Every time a (male) investor converted, I asked them to help me find female investors. However, female investors were harder to find, slower to reply, ghosted me more often, did much more diligence, and were harder to convert. That’s what I see. I assume GP was trying to make a point.
- robertlagrant 5y ago
  They're doing an equivalence test, the Minimum Viable Product of reasonableness.
xiphias2 5y ago
Yes, but at least honest. I prefer honest over a person hiding something / not telling the truth (she was hiding much more about the science part, that it’s rapamicyn that she’s testing).
- biztos 5y ago
  > I […] did not discover the science behind the company. It doesn’t seem like she was hiding anything, in fact that’s a pretty bold admission in an article about raising VC.
  - xiphias2 5y ago
    I was interested in their pipeline on their home page, and all I see is LOY-001 and LOY-002: https://loyalfordogs.com/the-science/pipeline-current-studies https://loyalfordogs.com/the-science/pipeline-current-studie... New names are usually given to new, unknown compounds where a company spent years on getting the compound right and tested thousands of them to select the best (using a criteria that the company publishes)
Traster 5y ago
I really don't think you're making a good argument. When a female founder says she's looking for female investors we all know the underlying reasons for that - women in the start-up space face challenges that men don't face and having allies and mentors to navigate those challenges is valuable. If a male founder wants to prioritize male investors that's fine too - but I would be interested to know why they feel that's necessary.
dang 5y ago
Please don't use quoting conventions to make it seem like you're quoting someone when you're not. That was seriously misleading, and a destructive trick to pull. Although that's not an explicit rule in the site guidelines, I think it's pretty clear that your comment broke more than one of the rules that are: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. It's also a flamewar tropes to switch some words around and act like the person said that when they didn't. Please don't do flamewar tropes on HN. Clichés are tedious and uninteresting to begin with, and the flamewar ones are poison. Edit: it also looks like your account has been using HN primarily for flamewar. We ban accounts that do that. If you wouldn't mind reviewing the guidelines and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.

> I heavily prioritized male investors. Every time a female investor converted, I asked them to help me find male investors. Does the above statement seem bigoted?

treeman79 5y ago

Pragmatic probably. Might just be easier. Over decades I’ve Seen lots of sales people target demographics in illegal ways. Mostly insurance and age. Basically impossible to prove unless your put it in writing. Still one does normally advertise such things.

devsegal 5y ago

> I heavily prioritized female investors. Every time a (male) investor converted, I asked them to help me find female investors. This is the text I'm seeing on my chrome /mobile android browser, would be funny if we were being shown different versions, but it seems as if you might have made a mistake there.

wrycoder 5y ago
I heavily prioritized female investors. Every time a (male) investor converted, I asked them to help me find female investors. However, female investors were harder to find, slower to reply, ghosted me more often, did much more diligence, and were harder to convert. That’s what I see. I assume GP was trying to make a point.
robertlagrant 5y ago
They're doing an equivalence test, the Minimum Viable Product of reasonableness.

xiphias2 5y ago

Yes, but at least honest. I prefer honest over a person hiding something / not telling the truth (she was hiding much more about the science part, that it’s rapamicyn that she’s testing).

biztos 5y ago
> I […] did not discover the science behind the company. It doesn’t seem like she was hiding anything, in fact that’s a pretty bold admission in an article about raising VC.
- xiphias2 5y ago
  I was interested in their pipeline on their home page, and all I see is LOY-001 and LOY-002: https://loyalfordogs.com/the-science/pipeline-current-studies https://loyalfordogs.com/the-science/pipeline-current-studie... New names are usually given to new, unknown compounds where a company spent years on getting the compound right and tested thousands of them to select the best (using a criteria that the company publishes)

Traster 5y ago

I really don't think you're making a good argument. When a female founder says she's looking for female investors we all know the underlying reasons for that - women in the start-up space face challenges that men don't face and having allies and mentors to navigate those challenges is valuable. If a male founder wants to prioritize male investors that's fine too - but I would be interested to know why they feel that's necessary.

dang 5y ago

Please don't use quoting conventions to make it seem like you're quoting someone when you're not. That was seriously misleading, and a destructive trick to pull. Although that's not an explicit rule in the site guidelines, I think it's pretty clear that your comment broke more than one of the rules that are: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. It's also a flamewar tropes to switch some words around and act like the person said that when they didn't. Please don't do flamewar tropes on HN. Clichés are tedious and uninteresting to begin with, and the flamewar ones are poison. Edit: it also looks like your account has been using HN primarily for flamewar. We ban accounts that do that. If you wouldn't mind reviewing the guidelines and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.