Posted on 05/31/2023 1:13:46 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The founder of a fledgling app says that San Francisco’s tech scene is afraid of sex, or at least the word “sex.”
Elizabeth Dell, the founder and CEO of the romance and sex app Amorus — an app that gamifies sexting for long-term couples — is accusing Andreessen Horowitz (also known as a16z) — the wildly influential tech venture capital firm based in Menlo Park — of hiding her successful sex tech mixer during San Francisco Tech Week.
For the uninitiated, Tech Week is a series of luxe workshops, happy hours and parties like Dell’s wrapped under the guise of venture capital and tech networking spearheaded by a16z. This is the first year Tech Week is being held in San Francisco; as in years past, it will also be held in New York and Los Angeles. In this year’s lineup for San Francisco: a Barry’s Bootcamp “sweatworking” session, a surfing event, an artificial intelligence pitch night with hot wings and bike riding down Golden Gate Park.
Dell, a former Hollywood film producer and recent convert into the tech industry, founded Amorus 18 months ago and has been adamant about getting sex tech — a genre of technology that constitutes everything from apps like hers to sexual health startups to smart sex toys — into the conversation.
“Part of this is to build community among the sex tech community, but part of this is also to bring this community to the wider tech community,” Dell said. “… Just like prop tech [real estate and property technology] or space tech or fintech [financial technology] or whatever, I want sex tech on the list.”
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
Hey if it’s on video they are all in.
Laz, I read the intro and still have no idea what this thread is about.
Oh well...
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Is that a trans AKA fake woman? It is San Fransicko.
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