Mark Cuban Has a Plan to Make Silicon Valley Better for Women
Summary
Mark Cuban, who makes many of his investments in the most public way possible, in front of millions of viewers on ABC’s Shark Tank, is, despite his very bro-y appearance and ownership of an NBA team, a very successful exception to this trend. Just two weeks ago on the season eight premiere, he invested in Trisha Prabhu, a 16-year-old Google Science Fair finalist who teaches coding classes for girls and has given three TED Talks. It’s easy to invest in smart women, and so I try to do it as often as possible.” He pointed to a few of his entrepreneurs as examples of such role models: Lani Lazarri (Simple Sugars), Kim Taylor (Ranku), Chelsea Briganti (Loliware), Angela Antony (Scoutible), Andrea Sreshta (Luminaid), Falon Fatemi (Node.IO), Joyce Reitman (Motionloft) and Sarah Melton (Dallas Mavericks). While men don’t outwardly display their family plans and often head back to work quickly in a field where traditional gender norms persist, a woman’s baby bump is automatically a glaring red flag to many bosses, recruiters and investors. After talking to 12 women about their experiences with family planning as coders and entrepreneurs, we learned that the industry advice, “Do not under any circumstances tell people you’re pregnant if you’re the CEO and fundraising.
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