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women who could be recruited as founders _TODAY_. Not ever.

The second one says 1) solutions may exist and 2) they require lead time.

The first one says solutions don't exist.

The second one implies that it is or might be a solvable problem. The first one implies that it is an innate gender difference.

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I guess what I'm saying is that going from the original interview to The Information's edit, his quote didn't lose meaning, because it didn't imply that pg thought women were genetically predisposed to hate tinkering with computers. Only when Valleywag got ahold of it and framed it to look like pg was saying that did it lose its original meaning and go from "there's a problem, but it's not YC's fault" to "the problem is genetic, womenz don't computer güd."

While I agree that sans controversy, the exclusion of "these' might not have been so important, I think that when reporting on issues like this that are apt to cause controversy, it is better to err on the side of caution and stay as close to the original quote as possible, in order to avoid situations such as this.

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