The following podcast contains explicit language.

Hello, and welcome to the Thinks Twice edition of Slate Money, your guide to the business and finance news of the week.

I'm Felix Hammond and Fusion. I have with me, Jordan Weissman of the week. I'm Felix Hammond of Fusion.

I have with me, Jordan Weissman of Slate.

Hello.

We are joined by the one and only Emily Peck of the Huffington Post.

Hello.

She's a senior reporter, she tells me.

Accurate.

Which is impressive.

And we are going to be talking about all manner of VC blunders.

This is how I'm thinking about this show anyway, is that venture capital is famously one of those

industries where you fund like 10 different things and one of them works.

And we're going to start talking about some of the other nine.

And we are going to start talking actually about a company, Emily, which you're telling me isn't that much in the way of VC funding.

It's more kind of even pre-VC, sort of angels and crowdfunding and

Kickstartery and that kind of stuff with a whole extra layer of sexual harassment built in.

Extra super layer of sexual harassment built right into the period underpants made by a company

called Thinks, which is, which was run until recently by a woman named Mickey Agarwal.

Okay, so let's just stop right there.

Period underpants?

Period underpants?

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