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Comment by cmckn | Hacker News Reader

Is she still doing the fake voice? I truly cannot get enough of this story.

The fake voice is interesting - She read all the literature that people with deeper voices get more respect, more funding and are given the benefit of the doubt more often.

And she said 'Well, that seems easy. I'll just talk lower'

This is the kind of thing 'growth hacker' types would normally idolise, rather than ridicule.

I think the voice thing has been conflated with the fact that she was running a huge scam, which we've decided is generally ok when you're making a food delivery app, but is definitely not ok when you're testing people for HIV.

People definitely would have idolized her and copied deep talking - if she had succeeded.

I don’t fault her for growth hacking truly, but faking a deep voice for years to everyone inside and outside the company is pretty extreme in my opinion. It wasn’t just that she did the voice in a couple important meetings with some Old Guard suits. The voice plus the Steve Jobs cosplay makes her border on performance art. It’s one of my favorite things to happen in the last decade.

It's really not. I have a friend who is a radio dj. She has a very different sounding voice in that role. Hell many people I know have a 'phone voice' they use with everyone but those that are closest to them. This is just an extreme example of it. This woman has done plenty of crimes, trying to turn this voice thing into a symptom of some perceived neurological/psychological condition seems pointless.

Still waiting for the Jennifer Lawrence movie.

I was kinda thinking Mira Sorvino. Too bad shes not a little younger at this point.

Jodie Comer I reckon

How does one even pull that off? What would be her explanation to friends and family? Or did she slowly lower her tone over the course of months or years, so they didn't even notice?

"i have to lower my voice to impress the VC and general Silicon Valley bros" would be my guess

In high school I noticed my sister wore glasses when going out with her friends, but never at any other time. And, after a year or two in high school, hasn't ever worn glasses (that I know of) for many years after. It was clearly just an affectation for her friends and her family just made fun of her in private about it.

You don't have to fool your family about stuff like this. Just your marks.

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