VCs Promised to Help Black Founders – My Experience Shows a Different Reality

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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