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So they're vetting out black women because they haven't had the necessary experience, because hiring and funding is biased against them, particularly because th

• daseiner1 6y ago
  it’s not VCs responsibilities to cultivate people worthy of VC-level funding. and from all the college outreach i’ve seen in the past several years, FAANGs are absolutely desperate for women and minority engineers. companies are doing plenty
  • thinkindie 6y ago
    She reached out to VCs that pledged to support the Black community of founders. Beside the fact that we have seen VCs pouring money into all possible kind of failing business (WeWork anyone? Wag?), you can't require the same profile parameters from an underrepresented community otherwise their pledges were empty. If they spotted some of the weak points that many found in this discussion (poor product reviews etc), they could have at least provided an honest feedback, some contacts or else. I guess that before money, these cases are showing no interests at all in supporting Black founders (sometimes intros or contacts are way more valuable than money).
  • zentiggr 6y ago
    Maybe its VCs responsibility to respect what they say in public and give disadvantaged founders the extra support and consideration they said out loud in public? Companies can't be doing plenty if they say 'we will help this imbalance' and then don't.