{"id":9579,"date":"2017-03-02T11:36:02","date_gmt":"2017-03-02T15:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/?p=9579"},"modified":"2017-03-02T12:30:15","modified_gmt":"2017-03-02T16:30:15","slug":"how-do-you-go-from-waitlist-to-vip-as-a-stanford-engineering-female-pre-founder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/how-do-you-go-from-waitlist-to-vip-as-a-stanford-engineering-female-pre-founder\/","title":{"rendered":"How Do You Go From Waitlist To VIP as a Stanford Engineering, Female, Pre-Founder?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>By Larry Chiang<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Networking sans your Stanford pedigree is CRITICAL. Be like legendary female Stanford founders and hide your pedigree.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Rational: Exercise an identity outside of the bubble by standing on your own. Set aside the Stanford pedigree helps you practice what it&#8217;s like for every other regular, non Stanford engineering, female. Executing &#8220;going from waitlist to VIP&#8221; will help you be street smart.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The cliche hyperbole stereotypical theme is that Stanford engineers are very book smart but not very street smart.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Plan your protocol for <span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">&#8220;going from waitlist to VIP&#8221; at this VC event at *#theBattery*<\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<p style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;\"><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">[unedited] Hi Everyone,&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;\"><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">Thank you for registering for the founders drinks. We have had an overwhelming amount of interest for this event and now have a long wait list.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;\"><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">Unfortunately, we have a strict number limit of attendees for this event.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;\"><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">Due to this being a founder event, we are going to move founders off the wait list.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;\"><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">Non founders will receive a cancelled ticket notification and will be moved to our wait list.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;\"><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">We are also asking that if you are not 100% committed to attending that you let us know so we can give your ticket to someone on the wait list.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;\"><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">Thank you!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;\"><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">AirTree<\/span><\/p>\n<table style=\"border:1px solid black;padding:8px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"bottom\">\n<td width=\"48\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/613751289587957760\/ZN0VKUOa_normal.jpg\" title=\"Networking-with-venture-capitalists-as-Stanford-female-engineer\" class=\"alignnone size-custom\"><\/td>\n<td><b>Larry Chiang (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/larrychiang?refsrc=email&amp;s=11\">@LarryChiang<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\">\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/larrychiang\/status\/836966600460775424?refsrc=email&amp;s=11\">3\/1\/17, 7:49 AM<\/a><\/div>\n<div>.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/airtreevc\">@airtreevc<\/a> Founder Drinks SF Tickets, Thu, 02\/03\/2017 at 6:00 pm. Founders, ONLY! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2VvjozTLNU\"><span>eventbrite.com.au\/e\/airtree-foun\u2026<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Larry Chiang Networking sans your Stanford pedigree is CRITICAL. Be like legendary female Stanford founders and hide your pedigree.&nbsp; Rational: Exercise an identity outside of the bubble by standing on your own. Set aside the Stanford pedigree helps you practice what it&#8217;s like for every other regular, non Stanford engineering, female. 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