[anotherfounder]

This is where intersectionality comes in. Her experience is especially worse because she is Black woman AND because she doesn't have an Ivy league degree AND she doesn't have a FAANG experience.

Believe me, it is much worse when after every negative interaction, you have to check if it was because you are female, or black or X. White male founders will not have to worry about that additional male tax.

[anticonformist]

Her experience is the same. Zero funding is zero funding. Your experience cannot be worse than "received no money" when it comes to raising money. It is a binary outcome.

She's receiving equal treatment.

But she's expecting and explicitly asking for preferential treatment based on the her belief that VCs have promised it.

It could be that these VCs were never intending to offer preferential treatment. Or that they meant that they would offer preferential treatment to black members of the Ivy League. Neither of these answers would be surprising.

[anotherfounder]

> . Your experience cannot be worse than "received no money" when it comes to raising money. It is a binary outcome.

Oh, but it can. That's kinda one of the points.

> Or that they meant that they would offer preferential treatment to black members of the Ivy League. Neither of these answers would be surprising.

Not surprising but inconsistent with the talk.