Kim Teo, co-founder and CEO of Mr Yum. Source: Skyline Creative.
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Happy International Women’s Day 2023! The day/week/month gets more exciting every single year.
I acknowledge upfront that female founders/CEOs in technology is a very, very small subset of the global population of women whose successes are tremendously important and should be celebrated on IWD. I’m just sticking to what I know best.
Enabling, empowering female CEOs
My specific passion is to enable and empower female CEOs.
While relatively easy-to-find stats on the percentage of startups and investments made into companies with a female co-founder or female-only co-founding teams, it’s very hard to find data segmented by female CEO-led startups.
The reason this matters:
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CEOs typically get paid more and have a bigger equity stake in the company than their co-founders.
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