Diana Kapp: The rooms of power are still almost all male. They hire, appoint, choose for the list people who look like them. It’s called “pattern matching,” and it’s a common phenomenon. We assume that the person who succeeded in the role in the past is what works and what we are looking for. A huge problem is the lack of women in venture capital. The decisions about who and what ideas merit funding are being made by men, and as a result, just 2% of female-led companies get financed.

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