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It's rare to fd an openly gay CEO of a large pany. But there seem to be social and logistil reasons openly gay people excel at buildg their own bs.

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"Now, as founr and CEO of the lotn-based gay social work, Grdr, which has more than 4 ln ers 192 untri, Simkhai has bee the very example of succs that he says he never fact is: Sexualy remas a sensive subject big rporate environments, pecially among C-sue executiv. Recently, The Wall Street Journal reported that there's not a sgle openly gay CEO on the Fortune 1000 list. Even those who are wily reported to be gay, cludg Apple CEO Tim Cook, have never publicly admted , a phenomenon often referred to as "the glass closet.

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Pl, some rearch dit that openly gay people might even be better sued to the 's a vast generalizatn, of urse, but acrdg to Kirk Snyr, a profsor of management munitns at Universy of Southern California, openly gay executiv may make better managers than straight or closeted executiv.

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"What I found was that gay lears value their employe as a whole, bee they, themselv have experienced what 's like to be judged for one thg, rather than valued for who you are, " Snyr says, addg that this experience not only mak for good managers, but for good entreprenrs, as well. "As a gay person, you're by fn a mory and somewhat outsi straight society, " he says. That, and the fact that 29 stat, 's still legal to fire someone for beg gay.

Tradnally, Snyr says, members of the gay muny beme entreprenrs so they uld be their own gay-iendly boss. "Necsy was the mother of ventn, if you will, " Snyr as rporatns bee more gay-iendly plac for employe, Snyr says, many openly gay people who are succsful rporate environments rema drawn to entreprenrship. "For gay entreprenrs, who do choose to follow their own paths, there are now workg groups such as, which supports and nnects LGBT entreprenrs.

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His thkg was, when entreprenrs share more than one monaly, be genr, race, or sexualy, they make eper nnectns and are more cled to help one another goal of StartOut was to help LGBT bs owners make those nnectns, while also providg first time entreprenrs wh openly gay mentors.

While Thiel is an openly gay man, Spedale says, his speech was not LGBT-specific. "No matter how much support gay entreprenrs offer each other, however, many agree that 's still ccial for hoehold name CEOs to be hont about their sexualy orr for acceptance to bee more wispread. That don't mean they have to take a billboard out on the highway, but there's nothg to hi at this pot, " says Jason Goldberg, CEO of the fast-growg flash sal se says he wears his sexualy as "a badge of honor, " and as a rult, he says he's approached daily by other gay entreprenrs thankg him for settg an example.

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