In the blitzkreig of ‘initiatives’ where the new U.S administration, the engine of which has undoubtedly been tech billionaires such as Elon Musk and his brethren, has sought to erase any position, initiative or even accomplishment of any public servant considered to be the result of diversity, equity or inclusion (D.E.I), it has rightly not been the… Read more »
“What very important truth do very few people agree with you on?” This is the infamous question Peter Thiel used to filter prospective employees and test for their tendency towards contrarian thinking — the type of thinking that enabled Thiel to be a successful venture capitalist. For a while there, many of us also believed… Read more »
Donald Trump is not the problem. Sure, I cant believe I wrote that either. But here we are. Oh how I long to live in uninteresting times… I mean, not really. As a middle-aged, single woman, we have never had a more privileged position than we do today. Previous centuries can get in the trash.… Read more »
As someone who has always been a minority in an industry, it was, embarrassingly, only in my 30s that I genuinely began to properly clock how tilted the stage is. Up until then, I was that person who said cringey things like “I genuinely don’t think I have ever experienced sexism or harassment”. Lol. Oh,… Read more »
I’ve written about how, in general, I think the Aussie startup investment industry is doing pretty well following the release of the Cut Through Ventures 2023 State of Startup Funding report, despite all the volatility of recent years. I’ve also written about some of the more interesting revelations of the report which really highlighted how investors and… Read more »
While I didn’t get to watch the Grammys in real time on Monday, I did get to enjoy it on social media later. I was able to scroll through the posts retrospectively, and perhaps this is because I was scrolling through Threads and not Twitter, it truly felt joyful and positive, which is a much-needed… Read more »
For two years we have seen both a criminal and a civil court case, play out to its sad completion, the result of a workplace safety issue, which led, allegedly to rape. Despite the vulgarity of the trials, which are the bluntest of instruments for remedy, through these trials, we have had the very rare… Read more »
A few weeks ago, I wrote about how 4 days can be a long time in business. A year even more so. And it was only this week I was trying to convince my friends at Tribe Global Ventures to do a 2023 wrap up of startups and tech in their excellent podcast (full disclosure, I helped them get… Read more »
The last decade in corporate Australia has seen a much greater acknowledgement of toxic workplace practices and their impact. In the startup sector in particular, over recent weeks we have seen many women come forward to share their experiences of gender discrimination, sexism, harassment and abuse, a subset of toxic behaviour. I am in the… Read more »
It’s hard to imagine there is anything left to say on OpenAI, that hasn’t already been said in any one of the millions of hot takes over the last few weeks. But never fear. In startup land, there is always room for one more hot take that absolutely no-one asked for. Today I was asked… Read more »
First, some caveats before we go on: I know I’m using a niche example to make a very broad point. The point still stands, even if you want to get the world’s tiniest violin out for me. I know that as a white woman, my struggles are not nearly as dire as that of women… Read more »
This is not going to be a typical diversity post — and by that, I mean a post about why we should invest in diverse and underepresented founders or build diverse teams because the data says we get better outcomes. We all know this already, the data reinforces it, over and over again. The reality… Read more »
When we tell the community our mandate is to support B2B tech companies scaling up into the UK and US, we know this is a mouthful and sounds like an oddly specific mandate. The comment we hear most from founders is, “we reached out to you because you help founders expand into the UK and… Read more »
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