{"id":1156,"date":"2013-09-09T10:52:30","date_gmt":"2013-09-09T00:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/?p=1156"},"modified":"2013-11-04T11:56:07","modified_gmt":"2013-11-04T01:56:07","slug":"aussie-tc-disrupt-pitch-makes-us-look-like-sexist-idiots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/news\/aussie-tc-disrupt-pitch-makes-us-look-like-sexist-idiots\/","title":{"rendered":"Aussie TC Disrupt Pitch Makes Us Look Like Sexist Idiots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Biddle for Valleywag:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;here&#8217;s the first presentation from the AOL-owned TechCrunch Disrupt 2013 startup conference: an app called Titstare, presented by two grinning Australian dudes, exactly as tasteless as it sounds.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>The stunt\u2014which the Sydney duo claims was just a &#8220;joke&#8221;\u2014was done before to an audience who paid for the opportunity to watch what was essentially a shitty routine pulled from the boys&#8217; cabin at sleepaway camp.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There are about a million fantastic Aussie startups that would&#8217;ve blown audiences away at TC Disrupt, but these two <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbandictionary.com\/define.php?term=brogrammer\" target=\"_blank\">brogrammers<\/a> got the go-ahead instead.\u00a0That&#8217;s absolutely shameful, and now we&#8217;re ostensibly represented as a country on the biggest tech-startup stage by a couple of misogynistic dickheads.<\/p>\n<p>TechCrunch have since apologised (for not only that pitch, but a second one too) and labelled it &#8220;a failure to properly screen&#8221;, but I&#8217;m not linking to it.<\/p>\n<p>Man, this has been a rough week to be a tech-oriented Aussie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sam Biddle for Valleywag: &#8230;here&#8217;s the first presentation from the AOL-owned TechCrunch Disrupt 2013 startup conference: an app&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[94,382,384,385,383],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"reckoner_social_message":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1156"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}