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In 2018, a group of female Venture Capitalists banded together to found all raise with the goal to change the face of those investing in Tech Startups and the people who build them. It is the industry thats changing the world faster than any other, yet it is also one of the most dominated by men. Joining me today on bloomberg , aileen lee, founder of Cowboy Ventures, kirsten green Founding Partner of forerunner ventures, and maha ibrahim, general partner at ataan ventures, all partners all raise. Emily in april of 2018, you all were on the cover of forbes magazine. This is space normally reserved for men, normally reserved for male billionaires, and this is the first time, as i understand it, that a group of women was on the cover. When you saw this, how did it m ....
here are some of the key conversations you might have missed. oklahoma is calling out republicans who are openly criticizing the bipartisan bill on the border without even reading it. not only the leaders, fellow republicans, but you have people on all of the networks that you would expect, all of the pro trump networks, lying through their teeth. you ve got these clowns that bounce around and do whatever trump tells them to do. this is the worst deal ever. this will ruin america. haven t even read the bill. again, republicans in the states, toughest security brought bill ever. when you have people like the senator who has been right wing as long as you can track him, saying that this is the toughest bill we can get, and then everyone flips because donald trump says, no, i want an issue. mind you, and issue to run against joe biden. forget about the issue. forget about what it s causing the country, i need this for political reasons, it shows you why this is confi ....
Thank you. I am the anticlimax. The only thing standing between you and the metro. Not to let you ride the metro. Hisses from the audience. There has been a lot of topics the last couple of days. There is one that is undergirding it, who we are and how we behave and whether we have character or not. The way i frame this, we have two sets of virtues. The resume virtues and the you e. G. Virtues. The resume ones are the skills you have good at business, accounting, the eulogy is what they say after you are dead, courageous, brave, honest, capable of great love. We live in a society where Everybody Knows the eulogy version is more important, but we talk about the resume more. We talk about public life more than private life even though if you dont have that private solidity, your public life falls apart. We are to morality what the victorians were to sex. We cover it in euphemism. We understand the characters destiny. Whether talkin ....
Good morning, everyone im scott mcgrew. Is there such a thing as San Francisco lazy . If not, i want to coin that term. We work hard theres no doubt about that but when were not working, we could be amazingly dependent on Services Services and apps to walk our dog, to bring us a chefmade meal pick up the dry cleaning and now gas up our car. Press the button on the new zirx app and a person will come to your house or parm building hey, how are you doing . How are you . Good nice to see you. Take your car and fill it up with gas, or go full out and have the attendant park your car, then click the app again when you want your car back. Your very own valet. You can even get a car wash or an oil change. On demand car valet is a hot, if somewhat peculiar new industry. Zirx just raised another 30 million in new funding. Pick up car after car once it starts in the morning, just kee ....
Even though the number of billion-dollar startups has exploded since she coined the term for them — and many of them are now struggling — Lee still thinks it has meaning ....