What else do young men not want to do?
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So many Silicon Valley startups are about dudes wanting to replicate mom: carpooling, laundry, grocery shopping, cooking, bodegas
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Because it seems the quickest way to funding is a) male founders b) something that mom used to do for them
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"Mom, can I have a juice? Mom?? Mommmm?!!"
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Gawd the whine of thin-skinned techies anytime it's suggested that diversity of people would lead to diversity of products.pic.twitter.com/hw08UhZ65H
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Maybe so "mom" can found a companies, run governments. You know not do laundry
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if that were true we'd see more diverse teams that would, among other things, invent products to help women throughout their lives/careers
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Examples?
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Of the well-documented gawd-awful lack of racial, gender, age diversity on tech product and venture teams? Or what the reverse would give us
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But let's take Netflix! Took forever for them to fork family accounts. My recs still full of Curious George
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My funniest Dudes Having Ideas moment recently has been an audiobook developer wanting to record mom's voice doing stories because...
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"the kids ask you to do the same damn story again and again it's a headache and boring af so we figure they won't have to with this"
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Literally only a guy who has to do babysitting duty once thinks what kids want out of bedtime is just THE REPLACEABLE VOICE
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Telling that some 'older' tech companies like YouTube are finally keyed into the need for development from a parent's perspective.
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How good are YouTube's parental controls? I've always heard terrible things. And the comments are so disgusting. Are they blocked?
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They have a kid focused app now that only showcases kid safe content for kids under 13.
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And provides additional controls, like disabling search, though the default "parent mode" key is entering spelled-out numbers. Still… good?
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Not to beat a dead horse, but when the diversity in an industry is limited, so too are perceived needs and solutions....
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