I feel like I read a different article than you. You seem to be tying Meetup's woe's to an over emphasis on their part in creating a diverse workplace. The arti

I feel like I read a different article than you. You seem to be tying Meetup's woe's to an over emphasis on their part in creating a diverse workplace. The article doesn't present any evidence that the leadership's focus on creating an inclusive culture was hurting their product. Rather, the problem is that Meetup didn't innovate would not be able to compete against Facebook. You could argue that the reason why Meetup didn't have a culture of innovation was because leadership was too busy optimizing for an inclusive culture. But again, an innovative culture and an inclusive one are not mutually exclusive, and the article doesn't support the conclusion that Meetup's culture was getting in the way of innovation. In fact, the employee you quote and most of the article goes against your second point. It seems that their previous culture was the only advantage Meetup had going for it when it came to recruiting. They were able to hire people of much higher caliber than the product warranted or deserved because of that culture. And once they changed that culture they began to lose talent.