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D 5 · C 5 · P 4 · Cm 4 4.60
Q I think that's what actually drew my attention to your work, because of course I follow this, all, this entire category incredibly closely. It's very personally passionate about it, but You were, I think, one of the first people to actually do a sort of formal survey, which actually played back some data. What were some of the things that you had shared as findings?
A Well, you know, so the top level thesis was if, if entrepreneurs were to listen to all the negative signals out there, they would never start companies. But in fact, you know, the lifeblood of Silicon Valley is a bias towards the positive and a bias towards possibility and innovation. So why are we not taking the same approach inside of technology and diversity questions is the, is the real issue. So when I surveyed these women, I said, what were your opinions on being an entrepreneur? Um, some of the interesting findings that came back, uh, number one, um, their family of origin, all at 55% came from entrepreneurs, entrepreneurial families. Not surprising for entrepreneurs generally. The point is, women fit the same pattern, right? Um, number two, this was interesting to me, um, leading a profession of father was most often things like CEO and engineer. Leading profession of mothers, teacher. Interesting.
AI assessment note: “some of the interesting findings that came back, uh, number one, um, their family of origin”
Answered raw tape
D 5 · C 4 · P 5 · Cm 4 4.55
Q I think that's what actually drew my attention to your work, because of course I follow this, all, this entire category incredibly closely. It's very personally passionate about it, but You were, I think, one of the first people to actually do a sort of formal survey, which actually played back some data. What were some of the things that you had shared as findings?
A Well, you know, so the top level thesis was if, if entrepreneurs were to listen to all the negative signals out there, they would never start companies. But in fact, you know, the lifeblood of Silicon Valley is a bias towards the positive and a bias towards possibility and innovation. So why are we not taking the same approach inside of technology and diversity questions is the, is the real issue. So when I surveyed these women, I said, what were your opinions on being an entrepreneur? Um, some of the interesting findings that came back, uh, number one, um, their family of origin, all at 55% came from entrepreneurs, entrepreneurial families. Not surprising for entrepreneurs generally. The point is, women fit the same pattern, right? Um, number two, this was interesting to me, um, leading a profession of father was most often things like CEO and engineer. Leading profession of mothers, teacher. Interesting.
AI assessment note: “their family of origin, all at 55% came from entrepreneurs”
Answered raw tape
D 5 · C 4 · P 4 · Cm 4 4.30
Q So, you know, we've been talking a lot about the space we're in the boards and the solutions that are out there. How can people who want to get involved do something about this?
A What you can do is look at the candidate criteria, look at the endorsing criteria if you want to be part of our community, either way, right? Um, feel free to apply. Today, we don't have the notion of what I call candidate self-nomination, but we do have a forum where women who are interested in telling us about their interest in boards can submit it. So if we do, um, in the future, which I think we will think about, open up a lane where women can bring their own endorsements, right? We believe in this notion of endorsements pretty strongly, um, so I don't think you can just nominate yourself. But you can, in fact, maybe put up your hand and bring an application and an endorsement, um, alongside you. So I think there are ways, if you're interested in either joining us as an, as an endorser and helping nominate great women, um, or in fact, think you would make a great board member, you can always go to, uh, theboardlist.com and just, uh, fill out a simple form and let us know. Of course, the most important thing, the thing we failed to talk about, if you have an open board search and you want help with it, go to theboardlist.com right now, and we have amazing, amazing Uh, women leaders that you should consider. Obviously, that's our goal to help people, uh, uh, get great board members.
AI assessment note: “go to theboardlist.com and just, uh, fill out a simple form”
