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“The Kauffman Foundation, for example, released a study demonstrating that tech companies led by women are more capital-efficient and achieve, on average, a 35 percent higher return on investment (ROI) than firms led by men. Forbes found that women tech entrepreneurs (working from the disadvantage of having received 50 percent less VC funding), are still […]

“It was enough, apparently, to spook the Trump campaign. Sources say that on Wednesday, influential supporters of the campaign, prompted by the campaign itself, began reaching out to the Republican National Committee, to Kristol, and to French, attempting to quash the bid. One Trump operative reached French’s wife’s family in Tennessee and told them, according […]