PayPal started with no women because its male founders didn’t know how to talk to women

PayPal had a hard time hiring women, Max Levchin, another co-founder, later told a class at Stanford, “because PayPal was just a bunch of nerds! They never talked to women. So how were they supposed to interact with and hire them?”

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Lauri Schultheis said that when she interviewed to be PayPal’s office manager, and its first female employee — before even [David] Sacks arrived — an engineer asked her, “Does this mean I have to stop looking at porn?”

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