Bain Crypto Fund Is Sorry for Tweet Featuring Only Men on Women's Day
An executive at the firm says it’s committed to hiring women after a ‘mess up’ over the announcement of an all-male leadership team for its crypto arm.
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It was International Women’s Day: Companies from Spotify to Instacart to Hershey’s were highlighting their initiatives toward gender diversity, Gwyneth Paltrow was posting on Instagram about her daughter, and a Twitter bot in the U.K. was going viral for highlighting gender pay gaps.
Then came the tweet from Bain Capital Ventures executive Stefan Cohen about how he was “privileged” to introduce the “special” team behind the firm’s new $560 million crypto fund — seven people, all men.