female founders

“And I wouldn't be surprised if we look back in five years and feel like 2014 was the tipping point for female founders.”

“And in 34 and a half percent of the startups that had female founders, they had started the company with their significant other.”

“Since a smaller percentage of women are programmers, and most people are likely to be close friends with people of their same gender, that means a woman who wants to start a startup is less likely than a man to have a close friend who's a programmer.”

“So when we see that 25% of the startups in this current batch have female founders, like, I'm certain that this means there's something probably going on here.”

“I've talked to a lot of female VCs. Not a lot, but a handful. And the one thing that they say that they notice when female founders come in to pitch them is that they don't take enough credit for what they do.”

“You can't worry too much about what everyone's saying, and all the noise, and like, oh, it's so much harder as a woman. Yes, it's harder as a woman. I've been discriminated against, you know, it's, but I have always kept focused on my product, and You know, wh…”

“I would like it more to be just a conversation about like being the best founder or being a very good founder versus being a very good female founder, because in the end, the market really doesn't care if you're a female founder or not. The market cares about …”

“There's a great, like, all-raised statistic that, 2009, 410 companies who had female founders got VC funding, whereas last 2019, 2700 companies got VC funding.”

“I feel like the appetite for risk for a lot of female founders to really answer that question, you know, how big can this be is it's more realistic perhaps of like, okay, well, we have product market fit, the product's going to change a bit. So, Realistically,…”