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If you think physical attraction was a 0% factor, you are deluding yourself.

Right, but you didn't say "Leah being good lucking probably helps" you boiled her down to a single attribute which was looks.

Inc and the rest of the tech press have featured plenty of less attractive people who get a professional photoshoot and come out on top. They don't get reduced to being successful because they are "hot" because they aren't girls.

While I know her looks haven't hurt her career I see HN as a place where people make more rounded comments than yours. Just because you can say it that way, doesn't mean it's worth saying.

Brevity is the soul of wit.

Brevity … is wit.

I know where you're coming from, but I think you're shooting the messenger. When it comes to tech press coverage, it's pretty clear that Leah Culver benefits from her gender and looks.

Quite - it's like Martha Lane Fox. Lastminute.com wasn't even a dotcom in the proper sense, but she got tons and tons of press... And then vanished. Regardless of anyone's stance on gender issues, the media believes women in tech are newsworthy in their own right (and the people who buy their magazines and click their links validate this belief).

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