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Unconfirmed - Ep.003 - The Gender Imbalance in Crypto: Jalak Jobanputra on Why It's a Problem and Her Effort to Fix It

Mar 2, 2018

Future Perfect Ventures' founder and managing partner Jalak Jobanputra and I discuss the New York Times article earlier this week about how few women there are in crypto. We discuss some of the surprising comments we saw from women in the space who wish the story hadn't been written and Jobanputra's new effort to increase diversity in crypto, The Collective Future.

The New York Times article:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/25/business/cryptocurrency-women-blockchain-bros.html

Jutta Steiner's tweet: https://twitter.com/jutta_steiner/status/968158503096471553

Meltem Dermirors' tweet: https://twitter.com/Melt_Dem/status/967983438945968130

Elizabeth Stark's tweet: https://twitter.com/starkness/status/968307972597272576

Wired article about The Collective Future: https://www.wired.com/story/for-women-in-cryptocurrency-a-new-effort-to-grow-their-ranks/