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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Her latest film — excerpt from IMDB.com:
A groom-to-be accidentally books his destination wedding and honeymoon at a swingers resort in Jamaica.
End of excerpt.
“Elizabeth” Dell reminds me of the story that the ballad by KISS named “Beth” was originally supposed to be “Beck” (after a girl named “Becky”). But Gene Simmons was right in figuring that the fans didn’t want to hear a man sing a song to a “Beck” without taking time to figure out if it was a woman.
Now that I had a second look, it looks a bit like Paul Lynde.
Back then, it sure would’ve sounded like it was an ode to the late, great Jeff Beck.
Yes! If Paul Lynde and Hillary had a love child...
Supposedly, Gene Simmons was the one who said, naaahhhhh.
This tactic is also an extension of their strategy to define every individual first and foremost as just a faceless member of one of their contrived groups, created to gain political power by dividing and conquering.
Both names are Hebrew, Becky being an abbreviation of Rebecca (Rivkah, “binding ties”) and Beth meaning “house”. Simmons’ real name is Chaim Witz.
It would cost less to buy a first class military grade mine detector, than the body armor necessary to protect a man from the booby traps.
Whoa! Urp. She's right. Venture capitalists are afraid of sex.
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With her.
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And rightly so.
Make sure “her” is in scare quotes. The second coming of Paul Lynde is undeserving of the term . . .
What conversation?
Just leave me and my Cherry 2000 sexbot out of the conversation and we’ll all be fine.
Reminds me of the old SNL commercial for “Bad Idea Jeans” (when they were funny.”
“I didn’t have any condoms, but I figured, when is the next time I ‘ll be in Haiti.”
I don’t recall the source but there was a story about the tech boys and crypto boys who made millions and billions who would rent out entire nightclubs and they were even too shy to get with the hookers.
The good thing is they won’t be breeding.
You are a great American hero. You have stared your fears in the face, overcome them and moved foward despite this.
Given today’s definition of it, any sane person would be.
Well, I am not into your turkey thing. I guess that makes me a “hater.”
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