>And while people's sex/gender shouldn't matter...
Always has mattered and always will. Sun and Moon. Yin and Yang. Shiva and Shakti. Men and women are each gifted with unique powers and no amount of postmodernism will take that away from them. We compete differently, we desire differently, we sacrifice differently.
>As a female teen who's interested in programming and who wants to found a startup one day
If you knew what they meant, what you'd be sacrificing, you wouldn't want that. It's a lot of risk and a lot of pain.
Someone said, "men have the gift of pain". The pain of low status becomes unbearable and the only way out is to prove, upward and onward. That's why we take on great risks. We go out into the desert and brave the elements. Many of us die, most of us come backed empty-handed and beaten. A lucky few come back with great riches.
And that's why you see so many men founders. This is what we do - our lower status manifests as pain and we go to great lengths to escape that pain. We don't ask for permission or consensus, we just go out into the desert because it's the only way for us to go.
Women don't go out into the desert because they don't have to. Their status is already high enough, much higher than the average man's. Why risk getting killed out in the desert just for the opportunity to come back scarred, poor, and old?
I would wager you don't actually want to go out into the desert. I think you, like many, just want the status of being a startup founder. But you don't want to bleed and burn for that status. You don't want to do what it takes, because you don't really understand what it takes, and if you did, you'd realize that the powers and status you already have, as a woman, are much more desirable.
Further, it's telling that you don't even know what it is you want to make a startup for. You haven't said you have a burning desire to make efficient the payment processing for SME's, you haven't said that you see a great opportunity in a particular industry to make a lot of money with which you can use to enrich your clan and community, you haven't said you lament the dental industry and want to make dental care actually affordable for those in poverty and a startup is how you'll do it, you simply said "I want to found a startup one day", which translates to me as "I just want the status of having a startup".
A startup is a means to an end, it is not the end, and you may find the ends you truly desire do not involve founding a startup.
Go ahead and try it though. I would imagine, as you embark, you'll observe the women who play more traditional, less risky games as happier and higher status than you.
That said, here's a woman founder: https://www.dartagnan.com/dartagnan-founder-ariane-daguin.ht...
Good luck.