Wow. OK, I'm a little tired of all these recent "I'm Indian so I won't get funded", "We need women for Web 3.0" and blog-posts. I've got a little time on my han

Wow. OK, I'm a little tired of all these recent "I'm Indian so I won't get funded", "We need women for Web 3.0" and blog-posts. I've got a little time on my hands so excuse this little diatribe: >> "As I’ve mentioned many times before there is no innovation without diversity" OK, well I agree with the general premise, I'd like a little elaboration on what kind of diversity you're talking about. I'm going to make the assumption that the writer's talking about racial diversity, and pose the question: How does having black skin automatically mean you're going to bring a different outlook to the table? Why shouldn't I go to Russia and find someone with an entirely different culture, background, language and religion? By that logic, that candidate will increase the diversity in my workplace far more than a Harvard educated black guy who grew up in Greenwich. As an aside, organizations like TiE are absolutely absurd. You're trying to fight a "boys club" by forming your own boys club. The battle of racism(1) was never won with additional racism. Additionally, you're further isolating yourself from the community as a whole. Assimilate, infiltrate and smash the system from within if you really think you're being discriminated against(2). In terms of practicality though, outrage isn't going to get you ultimately anywhere. If you don't think the Valley employs enough minorities in startups, then _start your own_. The barrier of entry is literally a 15$ Dreamhost account and a weekend reading the Django docs(3). Fork a project on Github and do something clever with it. The valley wont care if you're a philandering albino, you'll get job offers left and right if it's clever enough. (1) I'd argue you'd have to be actively searching for instances of racism in the Valley to actually find it. I'm a second-generation Indian-American. The startup community least discriminatory group of people I've ever encountered bar crust-punks and hippies. (2) Hint: Odds are you aren't. (3) I'm well aware of Norvig's http://norvig.com/21-days.html http://norvig.com/21-days.html, this is just for the sake of argument.