These Female Entrepreneurs Created a Fake Male Co-Founder to Work Around Sexism. How Well It Worked Is Incredibly Eye Opening. Posted by September 1, 2017 Leave a comment on These Female Entrepreneurs Created a Fake Male Co-Founder to Work Around Sexism. How Well It Worked Is Incredibly Eye Opening. Their experience shows how despite an intensified focus on issues of sexism in the tech industry, there is still a long way to go.