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- nxzero 10y ago>> "We believe the startup ecosystem should be open for all." If so, then why're two of the three available dates filtered by the demographic profile of the founders?
- fddfdddf 10y agoYeah I found that strange too.
- ksou32 10y agoI'm black and I found this to be odd. How does this work exactly, do you need one black woman on the team and then you can go all 3 days. Does she need to be in a leadership role, can she just be the Secretary?
- katm 10y agoIf you didn't see this previously, here's more on why we do Open Office Hours: https://blog.ycombinator.com/yc-open-office-hours https://blog.ycombinator.com/yc-open-office-hours. And to be clear, founders should apply. There's no harm in applying for more than one day -- but we likely would not do office hours with you more than once. We typically get so many applications for each day that we're only able to meet with a small percentage of the people who apply.
- ksou32 10y agoYou see the problem here ? What's to stop someone from just getting a black female friend to call herself a founder to do the pitch. I get wanting diversity, but when you do it like this your blatantly putting others at a disadvantage. How about you work on increasing your available times which would allow more people to apply overall.
- _pius 10y agoWhat's to stop someone from just getting a black female friend to call herself a founder to do the pitch. Integrity? Self-respect?
- nxzero 10y agoBring up "integrity & self-respect" when the larger issue is racism & sexism is disgusting.
- _pius 10y agoSeriously? You're trolling their diversity efforts with absurd strawmen like the idea that teams will trick black women en masse into being fake token founders so that the real teams have an extra shot at office hours. There is a disgusting "argument" being made here, but I'm not the one making it.
- nxzero 10y agoRacism & sexism is wrong. When's the last time you experience a racist or sexist remarks or behavior? When's the last time you confronted a racist or sexist? You're welcome to call me a troll, but filters based on gender are sexist and those based on race are racist. Any other sub-topic to me is irrelevant, and points back to the real issue, this is toxic.
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- nxzero 10y agoKat, I've read the post you linked to above, and in fact read it before I posted my question above. Possible I'm missing something, but is there any reason why my question is not being addressed?
- davmre 10y agoBecause those are groups to whom the startup ecosystem has not historically been open and available. The path towards "open for all" is to identify the current failure cases, and direct focused effort towards fixing them.
- nperez 10y agoI'm Latino and it has been available to me. I don't want a "Latino Only" day any more than I would want a "Whites Only" day. It feels belittling that anyone would think they're doing me a favor by banning the white competition. Real helpful, since my race is obviously a huge handicap. Right? Stopstopstopstopstop. Just stop. You're not giving me an equal opportunity to compete if the competition is segregated.
- newsignup 10y agoUnrelated, the event ids are simple numbers, the one which invites for demo day is: https://apply.ycombinator.com/events/49 https://apply.ycombinator.com/events/49
- akhilcacharya 10y agoDid one of these at my school with Kevin Hale, neat experience. Would have liked to get the AWS credit though!
- koolba 10y ago> Additionally, Amazon is generously offering $5k in AWS credit for all participating teams. Did they do this last time around? Seems like a no-brainer to get some free AWS credits.
- nxzero 10y agoGiven YC companies get: AWS, Google (100k), IBM (120k), DigitalOcean (250k) and Microsoft (500k) in credits - $5k for AWS seems small. There used to be a way to get some of this without YC, but don't know if it works anymore.
- koolba 10y ago> Given YC companies get: AWS, Google (100k), IBM (120k) and Microsoft (500k) all offer credits - $5k seems small. $5K in exchange for spending 5 min to fill out a form is well worth it. And that's not including any indirect value you'd get from the actual office hours.
- nxzero 10y agoIf taking the $5k means that the $100k is gone, doesn't sound like a deal to me.
- koolba 10y ago> If taking the $5k means that the $100k is gone, doesn't sound like a deal to me. Where does it say that one would cause you to lose the other?
- nxzero 10y agoI'd suggest asking Amazon directly, but possible this is relevant: >> "1.6. Promotional Credit may not be used in conjunction with any other promotional or incentive offer from AWS." SOURCE: https://aws.amazon.com/awscredits/ https://aws.amazon.com/awscredits/
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- Tan__ 10y agoVery interesting!
- wprapido 10y agowhat does constitute a latino founder? anyone from latin america?
- benguild 10y agoThis is called reverse racism.
- nicklo 10y agoHold up, an attempt to rectify systemic injustice is not reverse racism. YC's doing a great thing here to support and foster underrepresented groups in the startup founder world. Being from an underrepresented group makes so many things harder because as a founder raising capital it, unfortunately, is often more about what you look like and who you know than your product or your vision.
- benguild 10y agoSeems like a separate issue. It's wrong to promote any sort of discrimination or exclusion based on skin tone or culture.
- nxzero 10y ago>> "Hold up, an attempt to rectify systemic injustice is not reverse racism." You're wrong, this is exactly what reverse racism is: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_racism https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_racism
- maceo 10y agoThere's no such thing as reverse racism. There's only racism. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dw_mRaIHb-M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dw_mRaIHb-M
- nxzero 10y agoEasy to laugh at jokes, it's hard to watch real racism first hand. Next time you experience racism in the real world, saying something - experience first hand what it's like in the real world to confront it, then reflect on why it's wrong to make choices based on race.