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> When you boil it down, VC's only care about one color: green. Do they? Do you have personal experience to suggest that VCs in Austin are color-blind when it
by untog 11y ago
> When you boil it down, VC's only care about one color: green.
Do they? Do you have personal experience to suggest that VCs in Austin are color-blind when it comes to race?
What I see is a person's personal account of living in the Austin startup scene. They consider their race to have been a factor in that experience. Who are any of us to turn around and say "actually, you're wrong, your race doesn't matter at all"?
- angersock 11y agoDo you have personal experience to suggest that VCs in Austin are color-blind when it comes to race? Do you have personal experience to suggest that they aren't? The personal account here seems to conflate the possible race factor and the definite business factors that go into a pass. It's up to us, the readers, to decide whether or not we agree with the author's analysis.
- trustfundbaby 11y ago> The personal account here seems to conflate the possible race factor and the definite business factors that go into a pass. I'm curious how can you actually determine that if you haven't actually ever been passed on for being black? > It's up to us, the readers, to decide whether or not we agree with the author's analysis. Actually its not. I've never menstruated in my life, but if a woman tells me about her experience of menstruation (as long as it matches the data), I really can't dispute it since because I have zero context to determine anything past cold hard fact. And the fact is that the numbers are pretty stark when it comes to black founders being funded by Venture capitalists ... And no. I'm not going to provide you the data. Educate yourself a little on the topic ;)