Lisa Fetterman

This is Your Life in Silicon Valley · Silicon Valley Does Not Care About Female Founders (Guest: Lisa…

• What Kind of Discussions Should Listeners Have as a Takeaway From This Podcast

  The number one topic discussed is funding and how to obtain it. It's at 2% for female founders. How to change it? The simple solution is to fund them.

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• What Does Lisa Fetterman Call Cooking's Biggest Technology?

  On This Is Your Life in Silicon Valley, Nomiku founder Lisa Fetterman says the biggest technology ever for cooking was fire, and that cooks have been trying to control it ever since. Her sous-vide circulator, she says, now holds heat to a tenth of a degree Celsius, which she calls revolutionary. Because the food is already at the target temperature, it scientifically cannot overcook, so you can leave it for hours and only sear it at the end. She describes the result as edge-to-edge juicy: the collagen melts into the muscle. That control of heat, not a new flame, is the Nomiku pitch.

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• What Are Some Things That Every Man in Any Industry Should Stop or Start Doing Immediately

  Men should not demean women. They should start listening to women and what they have to say. What men should start doing is back women like they would back their male friend and give them the benefit of the doubt. Also, they should start thinking of the possibilities of what can go right with a female founder.

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• Why Are There Less Female Founders

  It's because of unseen biases. People are not used to seeing women as leaders; therefore, they cannot imagine it. Silicon Valley is the magnification of the status quo.

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• Why Does Lisa Fetterman Say Silicon Valley Ignores Female Founders?

  Lisa says that only 38% of companies are run by women, led by women, and only 2% got funding last year-- which is down from 3%.

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• Who Is Nomiku Founder Lisa Fetterman?

  On This Is Your Life in Silicon Valley, Lisa Fetterman is introduced against the usual picture of a startup founder, the guy in a hoodie from HBO's Silicon Valley. She invented Nomiku, a home sous-vide immersion circulator, and she organizes female founders in tech. She says she grew up in China until she was seven, then in Port Washington on Long Island, and later moved to San Francisco. She went through Y Combinator with her husband and Nomiku co-founder Abe Fetterman while Sam Altman was leading the batch, and she mentions making the Forbes 30 Under 30 list. The host calls her message on gender diversity in Silicon Valley simple and unapologetic.

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• When You Picture a Founder, Who Do You Picture

  Usually when comes to mind, it’s a white man because that’s the appearance we’ve all grown accustomed to in pop culture. In this podcast, Lisa Fetterman will make you rethink of who a startup founder is.

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