Claire McDonnell

Co-founder & COO, True Link Financial · 1 appearance on the record.

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Claire McDonnell is the co-founder and COO of True Link Financial. Her company provides money management, investment, and insurance products primarily for retirees.

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Assertion Supported

McDonnell: Research shows women and minorities get less credit and more blame

“So there's a lot of research that shows that women and people of color get less credit for their accomplishments and get blamed more or sort of It's the things they screw up are remembered more.”

Claire McDonnell Apr 20, 2018 ▶ 13:58 Claire McDonnell and Jennifer Kim on Building an Inclusive Company Culture · Y Combinator

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Everything Claire McDonnell said on the Y Combinator Startup Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Opinion

McDonnell: Prizing engineering teams is coded bias for certain races and genders

“I think that prizing certain teams at companies, so it used to be sales teams, now it's engineering teams, is I think prizing certain teams is actually a coded way of prizing certain races and genders.”

Claire McDonnell Apr 20, 2018 ▶ 17:32 Claire McDonnell and Jennifer Kim on Building an Inclusive Company Culture · Y Combinator

Insight

McDonnell: Inclusive culture is the only way startups retain key talent

“Fundamentally especially at early stages, you have to create an environment where your, all your employees and your most valuable employees that have your institutional knowledge Want to keep coming back to work every day, want to ignore the emails from recrui…”

Claire McDonnell Apr 20, 2018 ▶ 10:02 Claire McDonnell and Jennifer Kim on Building an Inclusive Company Culture · Y Combinator

Insight

McDonnell: Investing in culture insulates startups against existential threats

“And I think the lesson we've learned over this time, over the last five years now, since we started back in 2013, late 20 12, is that the way you build your culture is by small investments every single day. And that rather than being a distraction from the bus…”

Claire McDonnell Apr 20, 2018 ▶ 5:41 Claire McDonnell and Jennifer Kim on Building an Inclusive Company Culture · Y Combinator

Assertion Supported

McDonnell: Research shows women and minorities get less credit and more blame

Claire McDonnell Apr 20, 2018 ▶ 13:58 Claire McDonnell and Jennifer Kim on Building an Inclusive Company Culture · Y Combinator

Insight

McDonnell: Unchecked cognitive biases are the Achilles heel of inclusive culture

“So for me, the Achilles heel of an inclusive culture is unchecked biases. So it's letting all the cognitive biases in our head run rampant without checking them ourselves or creating ways for our colleagues to check them.”

Claire McDonnell Apr 20, 2018 ▶ 13:23 Claire McDonnell and Jennifer Kim on Building an Inclusive Company Culture · Y Combinator

Insight

McDonnell: Founders handling HR should designate alternative leaders for employee issues

“What I've realized recently is that it's as simple as saying, hey, if you have questions about this or issues about this, here's two to four other people you can talk to, right? It doesn't have to be me. Or like, if you have a problem with me, here are some ot…”

Claire McDonnell Apr 20, 2018 ▶ 32:43 Claire McDonnell and Jennifer Kim on Building an Inclusive Company Culture · Y Combinator

Insight

McDonnell: Curbing meeting interruptions prevents replicating workplace bias

“If you want a quick and easy way to not replicate bias and weird power dynamics, slowing down interruptions at your company is a good way to do that.”

Claire McDonnell Apr 20, 2018 ▶ 38:25 Claire McDonnell and Jennifer Kim on Building an Inclusive Company Culture · Y Combinator

Opinion

McDonnell: Facebook's Managing Bias training makes company inclusion training easier

“Facebook has an online training called Managing Bias. That's basically about, well, managing bias. So it's an inclusion training. And one of our team members, Isaac, has adapted that training for the company and given it in a few different ways, and it's great…”

Claire McDonnell Apr 20, 2018 ▶ 35:52 Claire McDonnell and Jennifer Kim on Building an Inclusive Company Culture · Y Combinator

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Assertion Not checkable as stated

True Link has 35 employees with diverse leadership across all teams

“Claire, you're at 35 employees now, and they, one impressive thing is that they have a woman or person of color who is leading each of the teams there.”

Kat Manalac Apr 20, 2018 ▶ 1:08 Claire McDonnell and Jennifer Kim on Building an Inclusive Company Culture · Y Combinator

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
Claire McDonnell and Jennifer Kim on Building an Inclusive Company Culture · Y Combinator	Apr 20, 2018	15m

Claire McDonnell

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