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I really enjoyed this. To me, the crux is here: > My beef with the discourse of “diversity” in a nutshell: it screams “give us more women” and whispers “give
by jdminhbg 17y ago
I really enjoyed this. To me, the crux is here:
> My beef with the discourse of “diversity” in a nutshell: it screams “give us more women” and whispers “give us more women like us”.
The real lack of diversity in startupland doesn't seem to me to be in chromosomes or melanin, but in experience and target markets. Everyone's building general-purpose to-do lists and twitter clients instead of researching and finding underserved markets.
- Retric 17y agoExactly, I think the prevalence of to-do list type apps shows a huge bias in the startup world. Looking at the successful website few of them target people building startups. EX: Facebook / Twitter (extroverts and stalkers), EBay (people who have or want stuff), Google (people looking for things), Fark (people with nothing to do). IMO, the most important questions are “what type of person would actually use this?” and “Why would they use this?”