Startups Anonymous Est. 2013 · Read-only archive
Confessions

My cofounder is a girl … and so many of the stereotypes hold true.

15 answers from the community

AAnonymous· Oct 17, 2014

Please elaborate.

AAnonymous· Oct 18, 2014

You're a 11 year old because no decent grown up refers to their co founder as a girl.

AAnonymous· Oct 18, 2014

+1

AAnonymous· Oct 18, 2014

+2

AAnonymous· Oct 18, 2014

Why would you assume their grown ups? Kids do startups too.

AAnonymous· Oct 18, 2014

OP: If this is the best you got, then your trolling game is weak as f__k

Mod alert/Dana: Adversarial flame-bait like this adds zero value to this site.

AAnonymous· Oct 18, 2014

+1

And our genuine posts are rejected and you see such bs being accepted on the site.

AAnonymous· Oct 18, 2014

+1

This SA's weaksauce attempt to do a Whisper and editorialise rage and insults ?

If your MAU numbers are tanking...Go Sexist!

AAnonymous· Oct 18, 2014

Girls, women, females, act so.... Feminine !

Oops, not a steriotype chromosomes and biology.

The poster of the statement is the young male geek steriotype.

At 53 I have employed, worked with, worked for and delt with hundreds of women. What female biology "lacks" or better yet what young male biology "overkills" in is agression. It is the job of the founder / leader to blend the team, mixing the "types" of personalities and biologies effectivley. My steriotypes of women include, loyalty, patience, finess, organization, attention to detail.....

I will take the qualities of girls over boys every day as cofounders, coworkers or investments.

@kaffegeek

AAnonymous· Oct 19, 2014

Focus on business.

AAnonymous· Oct 25, 2014

He's too busy focusing on her business.

AAnonymous· Oct 28, 2014

The funny thing about this post is that I automatically assumed that this was one girl founder posting about another girl founder.

Either way, I don't actually know what stereotypes this person is referring to.

AAnonymous· Nov 1, 2014

I can't even tell if the OP is referring to positive stereotypes or negative stereotypes. Could be "the stereotypes are true - and it's working out very well!"

AAnonymous· Nov 1, 2014

I was a co-founder of a well know startup, I've been told by one of my newly appointed 'advisor' that I can't be an executive and be a woman and have a family.

AAnonymous· Apr 18, 2015

Well, on the plus side you now know he's an idiot. That's valuable information.