The idea that a founder is too busy being brilliant to care about how he looks is part of a Silicon Valley ethos.
Sam Bankman-Fried in a video interview with Bloomberg. Photo: Jeenah Moon/Bloomberg via Getty Images
"I think it's fair to say that in the thousands of female founders we've met, there's not a single one who has ever dressed like Sam Bankman-Fried," Nisha Dua, co-founder at BBG Ventures, an early-stage investment fund that backs women founders, told Axios recently. She was talking about Bankman-Fried's signature disheveled look — shorts, frumpled T-shirts, mussed hair."The seismic flameout of FTX...
"If a founder DOESN’T look like an investor, the next best thing is for the founder to look like what the investor expects the founder to look like," Claire Díaz-Ortiz, a scout for Kleiner Perkins and a venture capitalist, told Axios in a message.SBF's look was reportedly deliberate.
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