Ashley Connell

CEO & Founder @prowessproject, Bulldog momma, yogi, gender activist

[Harlow @AngryInAGoodWay]

@GregAbbott_TX It’s coming -
The Abbott Absence of Talent

No execs, no young tech workers are going to want to move to Texas anymore.
That will be followed by business HQ packing up and getting out of town.
That will be Greg Abbott’s legacy - making Texas unpalatable for valued employees

[Ellie R Porras @e_porras]

@GregAbbott_TX

[Austin Statesman @statesman]

Austin-based @bumble is creating a relief fund to support reproductive rights and to help people seeking abortions in Texas https://t.co/Ot2suzO7Dx

[Wendy Davis @wendydavis]

Many of you have been asking how you can help women left w/o access to abortion care in TX. Please listen to this and share far and wide. Our frontline abortion care providers need help with legal defense costs - watch and share to help, please. We need you #bansoffourbodies

[Ashley Connell @MsAshleyConnell]

@jefielding Check out @ProwessProject - we reskill/upskill women returning to work and use their skill and behavior data to get them jobs that are better fits. 25% MoM rev growth.

[Bre Cruickshank @jesuisbre]

This is not okay.

And yet it continues.

What will you do to change this reality for women founders?

PS: it starts with investing in us.

[Ashley Connell @MsAshleyConnell]

@Erikals7 @ProwessProject Thank you!

[Ashley Connell @MsAshleyConnell]

@Erikals7 Thanks for sharing. Where you find these stats? Our startup @ProwessProject provides these working moms a platform to return via training, jobs and Community when they are ready.

[Ashley Connell @MsAshleyConnell]

@lolitataub @Josh_Taub Would love to and welcome to Austin!

[Sar Haribhakti @sarthakgh]

First Indian female CEO to be taking an American tech company public

[Ashley Connell @MsAshleyConnell]

@OneBandwagonFan Well this is music to my ears... the amount of no’s we’ve gotten bc we didn’t have a lead. I guess it’s just an easier way to say no. 🤷🏼‍♀️

[Ashley Connell @MsAshleyConnell]

@SFShag @myfriendjanine @lolitataub @ProwessProject Yes, absolutely. And thank you! I’m looking to someone to speak to about raising on a Community story. Right now, it’s an aspect of the business, not the sole one.

[Elizabeth Gore @ElizabethGoreUS]

Have you heard the phrase #shecession to describe the economic effects of the pandemic on women? Here are three ways I think we can avoid this. @iEnrichHER @NAWBONational @founding @digundiv @SCOREMentors @KKR_Co @FearlessFund @bumble @HelloAlice https://t.co/nlqDaa463T

[Jennifer Neundorfer @jkk]

In the last year, 8 @January_VC founders became mothers, while simultaneously launching products, landing marquee customers, recruiting top talent and closing funding rounds.

This #MothersDay I celebrate all the amazing mothers in our portfolio. Thank you for leading by example!

[Michael Madowitz @mikemadowitz]

She-cession update:
April Civilian labor force change

(NSA/SA) Men, 20 &over: +283k/+355K
(NSA/SA) Women, 20 &over = -440k/-165K

(NSA) Men, 16 &over: +384k
(NSA) Women, 16 &over = -402k

(from the less crazy household report, via @DianaBoe)
Table A-1
https://t.co/bVMV9o2lSu

[Jesse Pujji @jspujji]

I love this story because it reminds me there are no "rules" for the "right" way to build. She was a single founder, female (in the 80s!), an engineer, in the midwest, in healthcare and she outlasted nearly everyone... incredible.

[Ashley Connell @MsAshleyConnell]

@MissElisaS @modelvc @HeatherBuffo @CHudCardenas @romangrows @BillBlackstone @ashleyjjennings Would love to chat about @ProwessProject. @modelvclet me know if you have time.

[James Loduca (he/him/él) @JamesLoduca]

repeat after me: parental leave is not vacation

[Ashley Connell @MsAshleyConnell]

Exactly what we’re doing at @ProwessProject. Matching startups with untapped talent, many the women/moms who were pushed out of the workforce due to COVID.

[1906.eth | Harold Hughes @OneBandwagonFan]

@JoshuaBaer @CapitalFactory You should talk to @MsAshleyConnell