#WomenWhoCode is shutting down for funding shortfalls. I can’t think of a more dire canary in the Silicon Valley coal mine than this. We can expect a social fascist turn in the IT industry from here out as the remaining jobs not taken by AI are rationed out to men only.
$4m is chump change for infotech capitalists, a few bucks tossed to a pan handler. That they won’t fund #WWC anymore isn’t an economic decision, but palpably a policy priority toward a hard social rightward turn.
@Shufei its just another boom bust economic cycle. We've been through this in tech several times now. The last boom was artificially lengthened with ZIRP and now that it's over you'll see small orgs suffer and collapse, less profitable companies with valuable assets absorbed by the big ones (look at all the acquisitions and mergers happening), and open source slow down again.
We will survive. People put in the real work during economic downturns like this. There's light on the other end of the tunnel.
@Shufei as a woman who codes, this org was always pretty disappointing to me anyway. a lot of lip service marketing and vague “networking” mixers, very little actual talking about coding 🤷🏻♀️ I hope to see more productive orgs/communities funded.
I also happen to know a woman founder of an AI company who has been funded (by YC no less), and I’ve seen many others with women execs. I don’t believe WWC’s demise is quite the signal you’re claiming it is.
@jesseplusplus I’m certainly far on the outside looking up at the nosebleed heights of the infotech socioeconomic pyramid. So I hope you’re right. But WWC did good for some of us far outside of Silicon Valley. I was one such, though couldn’t take it anywhere myself. For that alone they get my salute.
@Shufei thank you for sharing your perspective, it's super helpful to hear their impact outside of my own bubble and how they helped you. I was in Silicon Valley, so it felt a little different there, but I can definitely see how their initiatives could help in a lot of places much less saturated by tech.
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