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All the pictures are old white businessmen. A real start-up matching site would have lots of 20-somethings, with about half foreigners, who have written some c
by andrewljohnson 16y ago
All the pictures are old white businessmen.
A real start-up matching site would have lots of 20-somethings, with about half foreigners, who have written some code.
- fnazeeri 16y agoI think the site just launched so it wouldn't be surprising if it's not yet representative of founders generally. As an aside, I was recently reading a draft of HBS prof. Noam Wasserman's upcoming book on early founder issues, and one of the things he writes about is that homophilic teams (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homophily http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homophily) underperform heterogeneous teams.
- code_duck 16y ago'foreigners' is relative to who YOU are.
- patio11 16y agoEverybody is a foreigner somewhere. (Relatedly, everyone has an impenetrable accent, and everyone has a weird esoteric name that breaks our system and should be changed to fit in.)