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Does NZ’s startup ecosystem really have a bullying problem?

Why female founders are loathe to speak out.

It is unclear whether there's widespread bullying in the startup ecosystem.

“To put it crassly, you’ve got a roomful of swinging dicks with money to spend and they just go on their gut. They tend to invest in people who look like them,” says the female founder of a Kiwi company who emphatically didn’t want to be named.

She’s one of many female founders and others

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Fiona Rotherham Tue, 05 Jul 2022
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