I am an entrepreneur and part of the Silicon Valley system. There truly exists some obnoxious behavior form VCs, which are mainly finance people (think wall street rejects), and are not techies themselves.

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On the other hand a most these female "wanterpenours", are not engineers themselves, but usually another "person with an idea", which are a dime a dozen, and have no value themselves expect their female SMV. Unscroupoulus VCs know this, and they try to get advantage how they can (the old Tits or GTFO in practice).

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On the flip side there are many female players in Silicon Valley that fully take advantage of their sexuality to get an advantage over other people. When I was working on the hot startup that many people wanted to get in, I had countless of girls shamelessly flirt and get overly sexual with me, and then just wanting to get a job there, or me dropping the resume to the right person there. It got so annoying that I stopped saying where I worked. This is the flip side of objectification (not the usual male to female sexual objectification, but female to male "resource collecting" objectification, which is more hidden and insidious).

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In many cases, this is actually good for true entrepreneurs (either male or female). VCs will be more reluctant to take meetings with female 'wantrepreneurs' that have no visible value. Overall females that use their sexuality got get ahead will get less attention, which will be redirected towards people that provide real value to the ecosystem. (The true geeks and builders).

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Fun fact: Also this bad VC behavior is not male only. I got asked out by a female VC partner after pitching her an idea. (this is from a major reputable firm). Didn't think much of it, but moved on to talking to other VCs and stopped talking to this partner. But also I don't buy the "VC has power over you" narrative. I think they do when you have no value to provide back expect your sexuality.

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TLDR: I just think VCs in general are finance people, (not techies), and they tend to be sharks. Many of these female "wanterpenours" embroiled in these scandals don't provide real value to their ecosystem, but have been skating through by using their sexuality. There will be a 'chill effect' towards this type of behavior, which will be beneficial to the real geeks and techies and true builders of value. If you are a techie, just ignore the noise, and keep on building.

Y Combinator

Heh. Their org chart is a blacklist for others.

The only word that matters is "accused." Another example of the cultural marxist form of fascism. Lol at "accusers can remain anonymous."

I'm very far to the right as far as guns, Islam, and immigration are concerned. Other than that, I have always agreed with the shitlibs as far things like civil rights, abortion, and drugs etc. I am at a point now where I will always support the most right wing person there is even if it goes against my values. This cultural marxist SJW threat needs to be fuckstomped. I don't want to see any fascism take hold in the west but if it comes down to it, the right wing form will be least detrimental to me.

"Venture capital is more of a boys club than even Wall Street. Of the five top venture firms — Sequoia, Greylock, Accel, Andreessen Horowitz and Benchmark — four lack a female partner. (Benchmark, the largest investor in Uber, has one female partner, whom it poached from Greylock in May, amid the controversies at the ride-hailing giant.)"

And you wonder why, when the rest of America was crumbling in the 2008 financial crisis, or really any of the "down" periods for other industries, we were booming. There's a reason that this hippie centric of the bay area grew a tech industry capable of hitting new grads off with a 6 figure salary if they could pass a basic algorithms & data structures based interview. (While the rest of the non-finance world was largely not hiring the new kids or paying them ~30-60k for entry level work).

All of this success happened because it was a boys club. It let to chaos and serious ethical breaches throughout the past 20 years, sure. There was a lot of bad behavior, a lot of unethical shit too, but beta males and alpha males worked synergistically to make a shit ton of money and build a lot of amazing stuff.

Where men are successful, women will flock to leech. The NBA, Wall Street, hollywood, etc, wherever the 'patriarchy' controls an industry, there are hordes of women trying to break down the doors as gold-diggers, as tone-policers, as nesting instinct HR infestations, as SJWs, etc.

You put a bunch of highly motivated, intelligent beta males marshalled by 1 alpha in a garage, they'll shit out gold eventually. And then come the gold diggers. Except the gold diggers of Sillicon Valley are smart. They aren't poking holes in trojans and trying to get Dwayne Wade's ONS pumpndump baby to lock down their paycheck. They are trying to redefine the social rules governing the industry by manipulating betas who are quick to virtue signal (Look at how diverse we are! Look at how we are 40% women, we are progressive unlike Uber! I'm a feminist CEO, I'm not like Spiegel or Kalahnick, I'm going to sign this stupid shit to virtue signal to protect my company's public image!)

Women come in and inevitably some men try to virtue signal to impress those woman. This is a town of beta aspies who never learned how to deal with female shit tests and they all turn on each other for pussy. Yes, some alphas who don't get a shit are fucking their fine ass executive assistant and abusing the power dynamic to fuck way above their dadbod grade, but these guys are 1 out of 20 at best. The majority of people are socially unable to deal with women infiltrating their space and rewriting the social rules about who should be hired, who should be shamed, what should merit good press and bad press, what things are now considered "sexist", etc.

And because a few douchebag alphas are out there drunk on power using their positions to dick down every girl they couldn't have earlier in life, there are some pretty shitty scandals. Enough to fuel the narrative that every tech bro is out here raping these poor wage-gap victims.

Thus it becomes part of the cultural narrative that SV is sexist / tech is sexist. And more rules and policing occurs. It's a never ending cycle, and it's a part of why the tech industry is strong now, but nowhere near as explosive as it was during the 2008-2013 era. Men create amazing shit, but then other men let women come in and ruin that shit.

nothing to see, really.

There was a fuckwit recently who was trying to create a firm that ranks firms based on how socially equitable they are. Nothing but a front for an extortion / racketeering business.

Business is for the brutal, the cutthroat, the bold, the antagonistic, the creative and the headstrong.

No one matching that criteria gives a shit about some YC 'blacklist'. If you really need someone off that list to move forward, you'll get in contact with them - doesn't matter how many tears are shed about your lack of social equity.

On that note - I wonder what Paul Graham has to say about it.

Posting this here because it's the only forum where it can be discussed by men freely, and if you have any doubts about the lengths that SJWs will go, this is where they are at. The problem today is that there is no rational public discourse about whether creating a blacklist of people who have been accused of something is a terrible fucking idea or not, without some hysteric accusing you of defending harassers.

Not quite the same but along similar lines - A distinguished scientist in the UK was run out of town (metaphorically) because of saying a throw-away comment about female colleagues.

More venture capitalist money for the rest of us then.

Okay. So I'm not sure if I understand. But compiling a list of people that are not yet found guilty of a crime, and holding them under the category of someone under the assumption of guilt, is a form of libel. They can be liable under tort.