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if women held half the jobs in Silicon Valley meh/analysis

Let's imagine a world where women hold half the jobs in Silicon Valley. Where half of entrepreneurs, executives, venture capitalists, board members, and employees - including engineers - are women.

[...] "I think there would be two enormous differences," the longtime tech investor Roger McNamee…

—p.250 Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys' Club of Silicon Valley Chapter 9 (249) by Emily Chang
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Silicon Valley success might be achieved in other ways

The Silicon Valley tropes around who becomes successful [...] young, single guys hacking all night, night after night, in a race to achieve their billion-dollar dreams. No families, no wives, no relationships, no real anything except the Product and the Dream. [...] Those young men have achieved …

—p.221 Chapter 7 (206) by Emily Chang
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Conference Room G

When a dancer wearing a gleaming-white bra and underwear approaches our table [...] tells me she is a teacher at a public middle school in Berkeley, doing summer day shifts at the club to help pay bills. She says she has met patrons from all of the brand-name tech companies nearby, specifically men…

—p.202 Chapter 6 (177) by Emily Chang
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there is no evidence that Justin did anything illegal project/panopticon

[...] Binary Capital said the allegations were "false" and that while The Information had "found a few examples which show that Justin has in the past occasionally dated or flirted with women he met in a professional capacity, let's be clear: there is no evidence that Justin did anything illegal …

—p.162 Chapter 5 (135) by Emily Chang
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VCs who manage their son's T-ball league project/panopticon

[...] because most venture capitalists are men, they are likely to be more passionate about ideas that appeal to, well, men. When Lake was raising her seed round, she noticed that a fair number of little league coaching apps were getting funded. "I'm like, how big of a business is that? Seriously, …

—p.157 Chapter 5 (135) by Emily Chang