#GAReads | Why 90% of the Investors in This New Silicon Valley Venture Fund Are Women
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“Why 90% of the Investors in This New Silicon Valley Venture Fund Are Women”:
On a recent Wednesday in Woodside, Calif., about a dozen Silicon Valley-based investors gathered to celebrate a new fund. These were some of the region’s top “operators” — the executives who make organizations tick day-to-day — from some of the hottest tech companies around, with many decades of experience (and financial success) represented in the room. But they also had something else in common: Nearly all of them were first-time investors.
Why had they never invested before? Because no one had ever asked them to.