“Meet Venture Capital’s Teenage Analyst” is a Wall Street Journal story about an industry where an 18-year-old girl with no college degree was able to get a job as “an analyst and an associate.” What’s the journalist’s comment on this industry overall? It is “very much an old boys’ club.”
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Quoting one of the article’s comments:
“Sell signal”.
Sounds like a rare exception. Exceptions don’t disprove the general case.
One explanation of how she got there is found right after what you quote: old-fashioned nepotism:
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