Sitting in a bay area coffee shop the talk centers around how horrible it is to be a women living in the Silicon Valley. "No one will fund me", "I can't get a decent interview without someone making a comment about my appearance", " I just want to be treated like an equal". I tire of these comments. It sucks to live in the Bay Area and being a women, even though you get free food all the time, it's hard but were is the sisterhood. I read an article were male backed startups get on the order of 56 Billion in funding last year. Women lead start ups get 1.6 Billion. That is a pretty big gap. Is it because women don't sit around and think that starting an app that lets strangers sleep on their couch is a good idea? Maybe, I thought AirBnB was a stupid idea but I was wrong. I think that the majority of women I have had the chance to interact with are extremely pragmatic and realistic and don't think starting a business is worth the hassle so they choose not to, I could be wrong but the next point is, the women that have made it, Meg Whitman, Marissa Mayer, Hillary Clinton, why haven't they started a VC to help out these women founders? Where is the sisterhood of helping each other out? Men seem to have gotten the idea that they got really lucky, got millions of dollars and they need to reinvest in the next generation. Why don't women? It's very vexing. I think its more that women don't want the hassle, they made it on their own and they want the next generation of women to figure it. Seems sad but the empirical data seems to lead one to think that it's most likely the case. It's much like the ritual of hazing, I had to suffer through it and look how I turned out. Maybe the women should get down from blowing up message boards and truly start helping each other out. Why isn't there a women's network/mentoring site that women are eager and willing to help someone with no experience or knowledge or connections get a foot in the door and help another women out? It doesn't seem like its that difficult. Maybe they just don't want to help a sister out. Maybe they had to sit across from some VC who thinks that since he has 50 Million dollars he can start a VC as his own personal Tinder and swipe left on those that don't spread their legs for him, even though he lacks any ability to actually bring value to a relationship other than a big stack of money. I think that both sides are just training each other for the behavior they want. Men are pigs and men with not social skills that are rich are just idiots. I feel that the exodus of tech executives is just starting and more and more will be dropping for the inability to realize that the workplace isn't a substitute for a bar and no in fact that your my boss means I don't have to have sex with you in any world, and if by some remote chance I was at a bar and you managed to get up enough balls to come talk to me I wouldn't give you the time of day because you are a clueless moron.
Come on Ladies, stop rewarding this behavior, start standing up for each other and start caring about your sister like she is your little sister and just because you had to go through doesn't mean she should. Help a sister out you just might change the world.