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If you’re a man between the ages of 18 and 35, you used to be tech industry’s most coveted prize. You were the one who decided what products failed and what products succeeded. That’s why companies like Asus tweet ridiculous, sexist stuff. That’s one reason why less than 10 percent of venture capital-backed companies have female founders and there is a massive gender gap in tech. The technology industry’s focus on men is reflexive and all too intuitive to the men who run the companies. And it’s built on a plain wrong reading of the reality of the market.

The Atlantic

More Tech Services Stats

In 2017, website sales amounted to approximately 300 billion British pounds.

Best-in-class SaaS companies achieve 5-7% annual revenue churn – equivalent to a loss of $1 out of every $200 each month

Internet Sales strategies have a significantly lower CAC of just $0.42

To generate a single dollar of new customer revenue, Field Sales strategies have an average Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC) of $1.14

Internet sales strategies are the only sales method to see a decline in CAC, dropping from $0.54 to $0.42 between 2014 and 2015

Only 8% of large companies use internet sales strategies. The proportion of companies relying on internet sales increases as company size decreases

The venture-backed companies that were acquired most often had a 7 percent share of female execs, as opposed to 3 percent at unsuccessful (unacquired) firms

55% of SaaS companies rate Customer Retention as the key metric to measure

A 2017 SaaS Capital survey showed that young companies actually have higher retention rates than more mature SaaS businesses

The median SaaS business generates 16% of its new Annual Contract Value (ACV) from upselling to existing customers

More Culture Stats

63 percent of the time, women receive lower salary offers than men for the same job at the same company

in 2016, women-led companies received $1.46 billion in investments from venture capitalists. Male-led companies, on the other hand, received $58.2 billion

At Twitter, 10 percent of tech roles are staffed by women

At Facebook, 15 percent of tech roles are staffed by women

The venture-backed companies that were acquired most often had a 7 percent share of female execs, as opposed to 3 percent at unsuccessful (unacquired) firms

47% of millennials want to work at diverse companies, according to a recent study.

Google only has a 30 percent female workforce

The boom in the industry is creating more jobs for techies. Data reveals there were 627,000 unfilled positions in tech in April 2017

A University of Texas study showed that women ask for $7,000 less than their male counterparts in job interviews

It’s been reported that women who work in computer and mathematical fields earn 80 cents to the dollar that men earn doing the same job