Valleywag called participants “comfort women,” prompting a commenter to correct: “Slight difference. “Would you please pay for me to go meet boys?” a pretty blonde asks the camera.
So she filmed a video for the crowdfunding site Crowdtilt in which female New Yorkers and male San Franciscans plead to be brought together.
But the New York network had two women for every man, and the San Francisco network three men for every two women. She launched the service in New York City, then expanded to San Francisco when the company gained entry to prestigious ( and notoriously male-dominated ) tech incubator Y Combinator. “ Cross-Country Love: Help Fly NYC Women to SF ” was the brainchild of Lauren Kay, the 24-year-old CEO and founder of dating start-up the Dating Ring. The endeavor seemed, at first, like a joke on Silicon Valley : An online start-up was crowdfunding a shipment of single women from New York to San Francisco, so the nerd-kings of tech could finally get dates.