women

11 statements across 10 episodes · 2 bullish · 4 bearish · 9 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by Anne Winblad · across every show →

Everything said about women, oldest first

Jan 2, 2019 bearish
Assertion Supported
Winblad: Female computer science graduates dropped from 20% to 13%
“It's going down for women. It was like, you know, 20%, and now it's like 13%.”
Anne Winblad Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 25:19 a16z Podcast | Demystifying Venture Capital
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Andreessen: Women account for 40-50% of Tehran's tech founders
“There's this amazing effectively underground internet startup ecosystem in Tehran. And he said the founders are exactly the same as the kind of people who are sitting at the Koopa Cafe in downtown Palo Alto. He said, interestingly, he said at least 40% and may…”
Marc Andreessen Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 18:57 a16z Podcast | Startups as Science Experiments -- Can VC Disrupt Academia?
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Reshma Saujani: Women will hold less than 20% of future technical jobs
“When you look at the trajectory of women, they're the majority of our breadwinners, they're the majority of our labor force, but, you know, less than 20% of them are going to be feeling the technical jobs in the future.”
Reshma Saujani Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 7:26 a16z Podcast | If Coding is the New Literacy, How Can More People Code?
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Assertion Partly supported
Saujani: Female doctors and lawyers grew from 10% to 45% since 1970s
“In the 19 seventies, only 10% of doctors and lawyers were women, and today that number is 45%.”
Reshma Saujani Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 27:02 a16z Podcast | If Coding is the New Literacy, How Can More People Code?
Jan 2, 2019
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Snyder: "Fast-paced environment" in job listings statistically reduces female applicants
“So the difference between fast-paced environment and rapidly moving environment, it's almost head-scratchingly tiny, but statistically, one of them draws many fewer women to apply.”
Kieran Snyder Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 25:44 a16z Podcast | It's Not What You Say, It's How You Say It -- When Language Meets Big Data
Jan 2, 2019
Assertion Supported
Fei-Fei Li: Stanford CS undergrads are 25% to 30% women
“It's about 25 to 30% in undergraduate that we have women, and then this thing just goes down as you Oh, it goes down as you go higher up.”
Fei-Fei Li Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 31:38 a16z Podcast | When Humanity Meets A.I.
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Assertion Supported
Lee: Standard Emoji Set Offers Only Four Gendered Roles for Women
“Because one of the big problems right now on, on the existing set of women as represented by emoji is like, there are only like really four roles for women to play compared to men. You know, men, you can be a sleuth or you can be, you know, a policeman. You ca…”
Jenny Lee Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 37:56 a16z Podcast | Not all Network Effects Are Created Equal
Jan 2, 2019
Opinion
Kim Scott: Men are conditioned from childhood to soften feedback to women
“I think Men are trained from the time they're little boys to pull their punches with women.”
Kim Malone Scott Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 17:47 a16z Podcast | Giving and Getting Feedback -- for Bosses and Employees
Jan 23, 2024
Assertion Supported
Horowitz: Higher Share of Women Enter STEM in Kazakhstan Than Sweden
“Way more women go into STEM in like Kazakhstan than in Sweden.”
Ben Horowitz Jan 23, 2024 ▶ 52:28 Fixing Higher Education & New Startup Opportunities
May 27, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Topol: 88% of women will never get breast cancer
“88% of women will never have breast cancer.”
Dr. Eric Topol May 27, 2025 ▶ 18:54 7 More Healthy Years: What We Can Learn from Super Agers
Oct 24, 2025 negative
Opinion
Andreessen: The 1960s sexual liberation movement had dark sides for women
“The sexual liberation, it turns out has dark sides, you know, maybe it doesn't so great for everybody and specifically, maybe it isn't so great for women.”
Marc Andreessen Oct 24, 2025 ▶ 7:55 Marc Andreessen: How Movies Explain America
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