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Re:VCs Promised to Help Black Founders – My Experience Shows... by mad182 on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @04:40PM (#23774001)
But this is relevant. If both the product and her CV are weak, the racism card doesn't hold up. If I was deciding if I want to invest money in some app, I'm pretty sure seeing most of the reviews are poor quality fakes would be a lot more important factor than founders race.
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Re:VCs Promised to Help Black Founders – My Experience Shows... by Jommi on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @09:14PM (#23776051)
You're mistaking the forest for the trees. You could go look at a handful of other funded apps and evaluate their reviews. You're going to find similar things.

My point was that you don't need to get into a more subjective, personal quip, as the arguments brought by others (eg. The CV) here are already strong enough to dismiss the racism claim.

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Re:VCs Promised to Help Black Founders – My Experience Shows... by jjeaff on Thursday July 09, 2020 @01:37AM (#23777232)
I think you are also missing the forest for the trees. The point of her post is that she submitted the exact same proposal to the exact same VCs from her husband's email instead of her own and actually started getting responses for the first time.
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Re:VCs Promised to Help Black Founders – My Experience Shows... by lightgreen on Thursday July 09, 2020 @02:13AM (#23777437)
Or maybe that’s because her husband has a LinkedIn page which is easily googleable and mentions three years of working in Google, and she has zero relevant experience.
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Re:VCs Promised to Help Black Founders – My Experience Shows... by jjeaff on Thursday July 09, 2020 @07:12PM (#23786352)
Her husband is on both decks. So at best, they didn't so much as glance at her pitch deck until the husband sent it.

Or maybe they only look up the senders of the emails before deciding to even open the pitch deck. Seems rather odd.

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