Katrina Lake, the CEO of Stitch Fix, heard Sacca extol his hot tub test at a conference. “As a woman, I’m sitting there thinking, ‘I don’t want to go all the way up to Tahoe and sit with this guy in a hot tub.’ At that point, I’m like 100 percent not going to get invested in by Chris Sacca,” Lake concluded. “Was he discriminating against me? No. But at the same time, I feel I don’t have all the options available to me because of the way deals are done in Silicon Valley. How many women want to get in a bikini and drink beers while pitching a business?”
