The Next Web recently posted this article about young entrepreneur and founder of WIWT Poppy Dinsey. Now as a young woman interested in setting up her own business I found Poppy’s story inspiring. She’s young, she seems to know her stuff, and so far looks pretty successful. Sadly, it seems not everyone agrees with me.
Read through the article… go on, I’ll wait.
All sounds pretty good right? But then there’s the comments section. This is actually what inspired me to write this post. A debate has broken out, spurred by the comments by Chris Beach, over pretty people and tech, specifically pretty girls and tech.
The comment by Beach that started it all was this:
At the risk of a Hermione-style whinge on vacuous startups, this is pretty eye-watering.In fact, speaking of Hermione, seems now she’s got something in common with Poppy. They’ve both founded a startup based entirely on ego and personal vanity. Pictures of themselves plastered all over a website, lacking any innovation or creativity whatsoever.
Quite a statement. Unsurprisingly there was quite a backlash too. Questions were raised over what evidence Beach had to state that their appearance was the reason for their success while others, like Zee M Kane, pointed out that:
full article && photos - TNWthere are millions of attractive people out there and 99% of them haven’t had the initiative or pro-activeness to achieve what they have (or even bother trying).
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