Locket CEO Yunha Kim, center, with co-founders CREDIT: Locket There are pluses and minuses to being a female CEO of a technology startup. For Yunha Kim, CEO of Locket, one of the minuses has been getting inappropriate emails from men. In a post for Medium, she shared an email response she got from a developer she reached out to about potentially hiring him, in which he suggested that if she dated him or offered him “some unconventional ways to lure me way from my company,” he might consider it, ending with, “if you know what I mean ;)”: Kim added, “And the sad news is, this is one of the more professional emails.” In an interview with ThinkProgress, she explained just how typical these emails have been.

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