She Started It

Excited to announce our award-winning @SheStartedIt is now streaming on @itunes & @GooglePlay! Close to 500 screenings in over 50 countries in communities worldwide 🔥 Link: lnkd.in/gU6KRW7s #tech #women #Entrepreneurship #technology #SiliconValley #SheStartedIt

@CarolineOnWork @Codie_Sanchez Love to see it!

Corporate advancement for women has slowed. At the same time, women now own 15.7 million U.S. businesses, representing 40% of all firms. Here's why entrepreneurship is rising—and what could help more women-owned businesses scale: forbes.com/sites/caroline… @Codie_Sanchez @SmallBizLady @LinkedIn @WellsFargo @Forbes

#FounderMode: in 2016, we released the 1st documentary following women building tech startups. For 3 years, we followed their struggles and successes. The film is still relevant today, when so little has changed for women founders: shestarteditfilm.com/watch

@alexrkonrad But there's always our documentary on women founders, still relevant today... 😉

It's a tragedy that 'Silicon Valley' didn't stay on the air long enough to do a Founder Mode episode

@ellenjdasilva Facts!

Let’s be honest: “Founder mode” doesn’t exist for female founders.

@bchesky Thank you for advocating for change, Brian. Would love for you to watch our documentary on women founders, "She Started It". Nathan actually supported us early on :)

Women founders have been reaching out to me over the past 24 hours about how they don’t have permission to run their companies in Founder Mode the same way men can. This needs to change

@sophiaamoruso Thank you for sharing, Sophia. Would love for you to see our documentary on women founders and their struggles!

It happened to me first — headlines portraying me as a “toxic leader” when I had to make the same, often unpopular, decisions that my male peers did without critique. For them, it’s called Founder Mode, and it’s celebrated (a proper noun! With its own merch! And trademarks being filed as I write this!). For women, it’s called “toxic”. After my “fall” in 2016, I watched an incredible cohort of female founders come up behind me. I thought there was something fundamentally wrong with me and that they had it all figured out. They were my friends, but it was hard to watch them win. I secretly muted their Instagram accounts. Why was I the only piece of shit female founder? What did they possess that I didn’t? Was it my upbringing? Maybe the media was right. These women took big swings, raised huge rounds, and were held up as examples for countless other women who for the first time saw that their aspirations might actually be within reach. And then, one by one, they were canceled. Our responsibility wasn’t just to pave the way for women, but to do it perfectly — and when we weren’t examples of whatever warped mutation the word Girlboss (which is now immortalized in the Merriam-Webster dictionary) had come to symbolize, we were “toxic.” No one expects men to build a utopian workplace that cures institutional biases, but we were expected to do just that. This is all too complex for an X post, and I’m not making excuses for anyone. Today, posts like this are out of character for me because, like them (as the non self-appointed consigliere for scorned Girlbosses, I know), we’ve all been told to keep gender out of the conversation. The media’s glee surrounding the “fall of the Girlboss” has committed, at scale, more harm than any pretty, young, white (let’s call it what it is), often unrelateable female founder could ever do. The phenomenon reminded a generation of women what we’d been told for eons: be nice and stay in your lane, or else.

@_thelivewireco @sabakarimm @Apple @amazon @NastyGal @Spotify @Tetris_Official @Uber @WeWork @theranos @BlackBerry @McDonalds Thank you for the shout out!!

@sabakarimm @Apple @amazon @NastyGal @Spotify @Tetris_Official @Uber @WeWork @theranos @BlackBerry @McDonalds @SheStartedIt love this movie! 5/5✨ would recommend

Movies/shows about startups, companies, founders: Jobs @Apple Bezos @amazon Steve Jobs @Apple GirlBoss @NastyGal The Playlist @Spotify Tetris @Tetris_Official Super Pumped @Uber WeCrashed @WeWork The Dropout @theranos BlackBerry @BlackBerry The Founder @McDonalds Dumb Money @GameStop Welcome to @Chippendales The Social Network @facebook What do you want to see next? The Long Game @WarrenBuffett A Hard Nut to Crack @Microsoft Eyes on the Prize @canva Across the Line @stripe Good Morning @Airbnb In A Rush @DoorDash On Time @tiktok_us Searching @Google Hungry @Instacart Artificial @OpenAI Vision @nvidia First @bumble

@Jessicalessin @WSJ Shameless plug for our documentary which showed women of color trying to build startups and the obstacles they faced - back in 2016. Silicon Valley hasn't changed that much... itunes.apple.com/us/movie/she-s…

For @wsj to say flat out that SVB could have failed because they added non-white men to their board shows how far behind the times (and certifiably stupid) this publication really is. It makes me so angry and very sad. WSJ readers and staff deserve better.

She Started It came out in 2016, lifting the veil on many dysfunctions of the startup ecosystem. Unfortunately not much has changed. Watch the film: itunes.apple.com/us/movie/she-s… #SVB @bcmerchant

I wish I'd been more eloquent here, but the point holds. We can and must stop overt sexual harassment, but that's far from the only barrier women are facing. Just as damaging are the insidious, unspoken beliefs about who is capable, who is "leader" or "founder material"...

Today is a great day to remember that we must uplift all marginalized entrepreneurs and tell their stories. We started in 2013, but the world hasn't changed *that* much. shestarteditfilm.com #womenentrepreneurs #startup

@6Gems We stand with you, always, @6Gems !

Dearest community, thank you in advance for your support. Please know that I was wrongly removed from my organization and the board of the organization I founded today without cause or an opportunity to participate in a vote of these actions. My attorney + I will issue statement

Thinking same - how many awesome ideas, great companies would be founded, people would be hired & developed, and the incredible returns that would be generated by a fresh $350m into companies founded by women & POC.

I am FIRED UP and itching to write some checks to female founded companies 💥 Tell me who are YOU investing in (or betting on if you don't invest) that I should take a look at?

If you're US-based woman in VC - hope you're saving the date for the @AllRaise Annual Summit at the end of May in SF - in person, woohoo! 🎉🪩💖 More here, registration will open soon! allraise.org/vc-summit-2022

Friday feels to @swarnali_mitra from @anthemis, @Lifetise CEO, Caroline Hughes and @Checkout’s Raluca Gagea for the amazing discussion with @NoraPoggi who created the award winning documentary @SheStartedIt - full of energy and optimism for women building amazing businesses 🤩

@AllRaise @MandelaSH @jesskah congrats!!

As you can see, we’re beyond thrilled about the announcement of our new CEO, @MandelaSH. On behalf of our Board of Directors, @jesskah wrote about Mandela’s unparalleled perspective in tech,All Raise’s path forward, and why the two are so superbly aligned. medium.com/allraise/welco…

@bellinghammakes Great memories!:)

Bellingham Makerspace brought film maker buff.ly/2uR7oH4 Nora Poggi to town for a screening and Q&A with her film She Started It buff.ly/2HseTs6 about women entrepreneurs in 2017. #Makespaceforwomen #bellinghammakers #doittogether #makersgonnamake #bellingham