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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ARE GAY PEOPLE BETTER ENTREPRENRS?
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Through his philanthropic ntributns, he has given lns to the Universy of California, Lln Center, Columbia Bs School, Yale Universy, and the Gay Men’s Health Crisis. In US, a recent study shows lbian make more money than straight people whereas gay men actually earn ls than straight men. Then October of last year, Cook beme the first CEO of a Fortune 500 pany to acknowledge he’s gay.
As an openly gay advote of LGBT , Thiel has ntributed to the Amerin Foundatn for Equal Rights and Top 50 Richt Indians 2020: A prehensive listIndia is home to some sanely wealthy fai and dividuals known across theglobe. Born Ireland, he has prr worked for numero posn for Irish Airl, Aer has been an open gay throughout his whole life and has been a relatnship wh Shane Lloyd sce 1999. I am proud to be a black gay man.
When Joel Simkhai me out of the closet at age 18, he was worried about what kd of profsnal future he uld have as an openly gay man. "That's partially bee I didn't have any gay role mols who were very succsful and high-profile jobs.
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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.
"Faced wh so much secrecy, 's no wonr promisg gay bs lears are fdg entreprenrship a more attractive optn. 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. Snyr me to this ncln while wrg "The G Quotient: Why Gay Executiv are Excellg as Lears.
The rults of the study showed that employe workg for gay managers reported 25 percent higher levels of employee engagement. "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.
EXPLORG GAY ENTREPRENRSHIP MATTERS
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. 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.