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“Among the hottest new companies— Facebook, Twitter, Zynga, Groupon, Foursquare—none, as Kara Swisher reported in the blog All Things Digital, has a female director on its board.”

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Sheryl Sandberg & Male-Dominated Silicon Valley : The New Yorker

… criticism about female board members aside, reading this this took me by surprise.  I believe it’s our first time being mentioned in the New Yorker (outside the “Shouts & Murmurs” section) and it positions foursquare right alongside the giants:

Facebook: 2500+ employees
Twitter:  500+ 
Zynga:  1200+
Groupon: 8000+
Foursquare:  75

… I fwd’ed this to the foursquare team.  Even if it’s just a NYer piece, being mentioned in this sentence is something we should be proud of.

“criticism about female board members aside” and “being mentioned in this sentence is something we should be proud of” really? really!? this is coming from the founder of foursquare? i thought for a second they might be different. i’m horrified. i hope that someone on that forward is also.

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Posted at 9:50 PM 05 July 2011
  1. gbattle said: A better comparative measure would be employees-to-registered users ratio, or employees-to-monthly uniques ratio. That’s where it starts getting interesting.
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    It’s quite nice that at least two of the companies considered to be “top” of the industry are not either predatory or...
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