New round of outrage on social media after top venture capitalist Mike Moritz of Sequoia Capital says he won't lower standards to increase women in the company

Archwinger · 2015-12-04T04:19:07+00:00

This is small potatoes. A full 30% of the tech sector is female. A full 8% of senior VC investors are female.

Did you know that 99% of sanitation workers are male? This is a far more dire situation. What the fuck is the sanitation industry doing to try to attract a more diverse workforce? I demand answers.

MattyAnon · 2015-12-04T04:56:23+00:00

Overall the plan is to gain equality of outcome for inequality of effort, under the guise of equality of opportunity.

'misogyny'

= not doing what women want

and how Moritz isn't working 'hard enough' to attract a more diverse workforce.

= blaming men for women's failings

All this bullshit gains traction because of the myth that "women are every bit the equal of men". Once humanity accepts that women are different, we can start to accept that men are more suited to some things than women, and hopefully stop all this politically correct nonsense.

JDiculous · 2015-12-04T08:28:09+00:00

It's not even about gender equality, it's about advancing women and bringing down men. If there was a top VC firm run entirely by women who only hired women, there would be no outrage and these same feminists would probably be celebrating. It's like a fucking battle of the sexes, like at recess when kids play boys vs. girls. Except these are grown-ass adults.

InscrutablePUA · 2015-12-04T13:27:33+00:00

This is the same Michael Moritz who recently donated £75 million to fund a scholarship for underprivileged students at Oxford University. He's a good man.

popthatpill · 2015-12-04T05:58:56+00:00

As recently as a decade ago (possibly less - maybe five years ago?), it was still acceptable to oppose affirmative action for women. What we're seeing now is that the social licence to oppose affirmative action for women is being withdrawn. All this has happened in 10-15 years or less, ie. since the start of the century.

Equal opportunity didn't deliver enough economic rents to women, so now they're taking stronger action.

Redpillc0re · 2015-12-04T11:39:25+00:00

It's ridiculous here to watch the pattern repeating itself over and over

Powerful man has an interview
The topic of women in (x cutting-edge field ) is mentioned. Man makes typical remarks that everyone who is able is accepted, they would wish for more women
Twitter outrage, misogynist blah blah rapist blah blah equality blah blah
Man amends statement, promises to do more to appease the cunts.
Twitter moves on to its next victim

It's clear women don't really care for more women in field x. They just want to express their feeeeeelings. And these guys never fail to give them a sense of vindication. "We need to do more" seems to do the trick well.

Did any of the public humiliations/firings of CEOs in the past decade lead to more women anywhere? Are more women interested in tech? No.

At some point feminazis will get bored of this witchhunt and move to something else. In the meanwhile it's almost funny to watch what they do.

Iron-willing · 2015-12-04T15:11:24+00:00

Sequoia has more women working in its China and Israel businesses.

If this doesn't show how bad American women are I don't know what will

RojoEscarlata · 2015-12-04T13:28:11+00:00

"Isn't working hard enough to attract a more diverse workforce"

I fucking hate Marxist ideas so fucking much, SC business is not hiring "diverse" people, and the hiring should be done taking into account the skills/aptitudes of a person, not because they have a vagina or different skin.

Comfort have made people so conformist that even jobs ~should~ MOST adapt to them.

Fuck modern people are pathetic.

sir_wankalot_here · 2015-12-04T04:31:09+00:00

They're not whining because of equal standards. They are whining because women are denied access to all that filthy Beta male lucre. What a strip club is to men, the workplace is for women.

Swoledinger · 2015-12-04T09:19:50+00:00

VC is all about gett'n dat money.

It's kind of humorous that anyone would entertain the thought that women are not employed more in VC because they are women. Follow it to its logical conclusion.

They hire (and exploit) whom ever will net them the greatest profit.
They only hire men because a. They would rather punish women than make more money? Nope. Whom ever would generate the most profit is who they will hire. b. They know they exploit their workers, so they protect women from the exploitation by not hiring them. Really?

Ultimately we are all lazy assholes. We gravitate towards optimization. I hire the candidate based on how easy they are going to make my job. That's it.

Cyralea · 2015-12-04T14:43:42+00:00

The more an industry trends towards meritocracy, the fewer women you will see. That's not an accident. It's living evidence of male superiority in task completion and problem solving.

There's a reason why the tech sector and VC is mostly men, the more women you introduce into the mix, the more likely you are to kill your business.

favours_of_the_moon · 2015-12-04T04:34:42+00:00

In other words, trying to bully and intimidate him.

chances_are_ur_a_fag · 2015-12-04T17:52:59+00:00

as my old school step father, who owned a mortgage company, said once, "never hire broads if you want to get shit done".

after personally witnessing the uselessness of women in the corporate world after ten years, I'd say he's right

Momo_dollar · 2015-12-04T20:11:30+00:00

Females can't even manage their own low level business. I'll give an example of high end independent escorts who advertise on a popular website. It shouldn't take much to figure out how to successfully market themselves, how to build credibility, and how to judge messages and the authenticity of messages from potential clients. Basically clients who also have a profile can send messages, and if they book through the system then each can leave feedback. So naturally a girl should strive to increase her feedback, and pay good attention to messages from guys who have given and received lots of positive feedback. Yet most do not understand this and choose the easy option of ignoring their messages and only answering their phone. This then leads to lots of time wasters etc

Anyways I sometimes do stuff on the side involving Photoshop etc and it led me to that world from which I discovered opportunities.

So one day I contact a girl from a posh part of town and pitch her my service etc and offer to rewrite and design her profile, I explain the benefits and she agrees. I do the job, get paid and she mentions her friend needs the same done so I do it. Now I'm meeting them in their lovely apartment. I explain that they should strive to answer messages and getting booking through the system to increase feedback, but damn as busy girls they don't have time but for x amount a week I can check and reply 2 times a day. They both agree. After week one they are both happy AF and even pay me extra, I'm going there the queen b is even making me home cooking etc, next 3 time are the same they pay me extra each time.

One day I'm checking their messages and I realise that queen b has replied to messages that I've already replied to on her profile. 1) This will confuse the guys and most guys are already weary of girls they havnt met 2) Her way of replying was just shit and rude, stunk of attitude. So I realised what was happening, queen b was starting to think that she could do what I do better than her. I sent her a text and just said look if you're gonna be messaging people Ive messaged then its best that I stop. She agreed. Anyways I still had the agreement with her friend, and Queen B still paid me for other technical things like removing logos and uploading photos etc. Then came the test of who was best. One guy from abroad messaged both her and her friend for an overnight in a month time. The guy had great feedback from several European cities. I knew what the guy was doing, and he had probably messaged many other girls in that area. Queen B's reply received no further communication, my reply on behalf of queen b's friend led to several messages, and a booking confirmation a few days later.

Within 2 weeks of queen b replying to her own messages, she starts to complain that she isn't getting customers. I mention 1) shes in a business where repeat custom should be 90% of her trade 2) Maybe its her way of replying puts people off. She says NO, ITS THE PROFILE YOU WROTE MUST BE SOMETHING WRONG WITH IT, NOT SEDUCTIVE/SEXUAL ENOUGH. I point out that for several weeks it was good and she was giving me bonuses and only change has been in who is responding. She calms down with "maybe just a bad week". So before leaving I confirm with her friend if business is good for her and she is happy.

Over the coming weeks queen b complains more and more but won't accept the obvious. She even blams me for not emphasizing something on her profile, when I say but you read the profile and signed off on it she says "no I didn't look I just trusted you because I thought you knew what you were doing" , I mention that at least her friend is getting enough bookings to pay their rent. Over the next week she asks me to make several changes to her profile. I see her on the Sunday, she starts going on about a bf, and even accuses me of wanting her. I firmly tell she is one of several clients and that's it.

Next day she messages and says she wants her profile exactly as it was before I came and has the code can I do it. I agree, she sends me the code and its the first profile that I did for her. So I text her back and tell her bitch you're crazy or senile, but I'm done with you.

Even in the profession that they have worked in longest and are best they still lack the business/marketing skills to maximize their potential. They just lack a certain ability, I would say its the acceptance to know when someone is better at something than you are, to often they will let pride hinder rationality. BTW queen b was for the most part, quite intelligent, had worked a decent job abroad.

[deleted] · 2015-12-04T19:41:04+00:00

Oddly, women tend to exit a oppossite ends of the spectrum with little in-between. You either get incredibly competent and able women, or completely useless women. Rarely are there few in betweens. The women who are good, tend to keep pace with if not outpace men (but in far fewer numbers).

I do capital investment pitches at least once a month. I'm currently working with five different tech startups. Only one of them has a single female founder in the group. Non-tech startups, clothing and shoe startups rather, have tons of women and I've worked with them. Honestly I prefer creating blue collar businesses as those are easy to plug into and work with but tech startups can have major returns.

Tech startups at least pretend to be trying something new (i've turned down working with clones of Yelp), the clothing and shoe startups are way out of their league and way too hopeful (watched way too many episodes of "How To Make It In America"). Few startup folks have any real clue about business, marketing, or sales.

So it's hard for a business to invest in people with no proven track record of success, male or female for that matter. So they have every reason to maintain high standards to maximize their returns on investment. Capitalism is all about meritocracy, not feeding feelings with bullshit. Succeed or die.

Title	New round of outrage on social media after top venture capitalist Mike Moritz of Sequoia Capital says he won't lower standards to increase women in the company
Author	InscrutablePUA
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Date	December 4, 2015 4:09 AM UTC (7 years ago)
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