women

12 statements across 11 episodes · 4 bullish · 6 bearish · 11 people on the record · first statement Aug 7, 2017 by Jenn Hyman · across every show →

Everything said about women, oldest first

Aug 7, 2017 negative
Opinion
Hyman: Society is uncomfortable describing female entrepreneurs as visionaries
“We as A society feel uncomfortable using the words visionary or brilliant to describe women.”
Jenn Hyman Aug 7, 2017 ▶ 37:21 Rent The Runway: Jenn Hyman
Sep 17, 2018 negative
Insight
Brown: Men are considered brilliant when women are considered difficult
“You know, the thing is, unfortunately, men could be brilliant when women are considered difficult.”
Bobbi Brown Sep 17, 2018 ▶ 36:27 Bobbi Brown Cosmetics: Bobbi Brown
Nov 26, 2018 negative
Assertion Supported
Weiss: Only 6% of venture capitalists are women
“Six percent of venture capitalists are women, and hopefully that will go up.”
Emily Weiss Nov 26, 2018 ▶ 32:08 Live Episode! Glossier: Emily Weiss
Nov 26, 2018 negative
Insight
Weiss: Women face a double bind between lazy and frivolous beauty standards
“It's so hard for women to be the right level of maintenance. If you're too low maintenance, then you're lazy. You know, there's this stigma of, like, the person who, like, isn't doing enough, and yet if you're wearing a lot of makeup or you're, like, look like…”
Emily Weiss Nov 26, 2018 ▶ 21:36 Live Episode! Glossier: Emily Weiss
Sep 19, 2020 positive
Insight
Wolfe Herd: Requiring women to message first equalizes dating power dynamics
“We've always been about putting the power into the women's hand, not to make women above men, but to equalize this kind of broken system. We felt that women were historically a bit below men in this like totem pole of relationships and who should go first and …”
Whitney Wolfe Herd Sep 19, 2020 ▶ 4:25 How I Built Resilience: Whitney Wolfe Herd of Bumble
Oct 29, 2020 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Contee: Startups led by women, minorities, and rural founders are undervalued
“Doubling down on investing in small businesses, especially from women, especially from minorities, especially from rural areas in innovative startups that are rising up because those are the businesses right now that are undervalued and are going to overperfor…”
Cheryl Contee Oct 29, 2020 ▶ 18:32 How I Built Resilience: Cheryl Contee of Do Big Things
Apr 4, 2022 negative
Opinion
Dunn: The venture capital system is fundamentally misogynistically wired
“So we have a mismatch where men who don't understand women or how women shop are trying to decide how to make investments, and only nine percent of VCs are women. So it's a fundamentally misogynistically wired system.”
Andy Dunn Apr 4, 2022 ▶ 19:35 Bonobos: Andy Dunn (2019)
Jun 5, 2023 negative
Opinion
Tory Burch: 2000s Culture Viewed Ambition as Acceptable for Men but Not Women
“I think we, I think it was in the ether that way back then. That it was okay for men to be ambitious, but not okay for women.”
Tory Burch Jun 5, 2023 ▶ 39:29 Tory Burch: Tory Burch
Jul 31, 2023 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Tetris was the first video game to be widely played by women
“It's completely genderless. You know, it's the first game that was being played by women. Just by that alone, it could, you know, double the sales.”
Henk Rogers Jul 31, 2023 ▶ 34:37 The Tetris Company: Henk Rogers
Oct 3, 2024 neutral
Assertion Supported
Women initiate 70% to 75% of all divorce filings
“Women file for divorce 70 to 75% of the time”
Erin Levine Oct 3, 2024 ▶ 6:57 Advice Line: Reaching New Customers
Oct 21, 2024 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Hantas: 21 Seeds convinced women to buy hard alcohol for home consumption
“Prior to 21 Seeds, really, women would bring wine and beer, buy that for the house, and they weren't in the business of really buying hard alcohol for the house, and we really changed that behavior.”
Kat Hantas Oct 21, 2024 ▶ 31:04 21 Seeds: Kat Hantas
Oct 25, 2024
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Barnana: Chewy sweet snacks skew female while chip products skew male
“Women tend to kind of go more towards the sweets and the chewy ones, and we realized as the companies are growing more on the chip side, there was kind of more males that were buying those types of products”
Caue Suplicy Oct 25, 2024 ▶ 31:04 What It Really Takes To Build a Food Business: Part 2
Made with StarZero

Turn any episode into a week of clips.

This entire site, over 800 episodes transcribed, diarized, checked and made playable, runs on the StarZero media pipeline. Drop in your own episode and the podcast clipper finds the moments worth sharing, cuts them, captions them, and reframes them for every feed.