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.”
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Anything to do with sex in San Francisco is something to first be feared, and met with extreme skepticism and prejudice.
Yes, because if filthy rich tech-entrepreneur men need anything - its hookups with local skanks at some random sex-app event, followed quickly by “believe all women” harassment lawsuits.
I’m scared of sex.
what an infectious concept
Pimping via an “app” is still pimping.
Dell, a former Hollywood film producer and recent convert into the tech industry,
In San Francisco?
I don’t blame them!.....................
The author of this article grew up in the Los Angeles area, went to UC Berkeley - what we he know about ‘sex’!
What type of films?
To me, sex is when a turkey doing calculus sprints out a Martian airlock with cheese in its beak.
I’m a little kinky.
Hmmm...if someone wanted to inject assets into sex tech that that could erect to new highs without dildoing around in existing systems, he'd be attracted to robots in Japan that might soon fill in the gap in China left by the proportion shrinkage of marriage aged women.
I’d hit it, but only if she (while doing calculus) sprinted out a Martian airlock with cheese in her beak.
You romantic, you.
Y’all just need to develop a fetish for turkeys doing calculus sprinting out of Martian airlocks with cheese in their beak.
If there is industry-wide anxiety over using the term ‘sex’ in marketing, it may be because latelty, most discussions having to do with ‘sex’ end up really being about
Trans and their latest demands.
Grifters gotta grift.
She’s got warehouses full of sex toys and they aren’t going to sell themselves.
I don’t blame the tekkies. Sex is scary. Maybe they can get AI to do it for them.
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