No, because the decision to interview is made subsequent to a presumably non-biased application. Asking people to show you their skin color (and age, and gende

No, because the decision to interview is made subsequent to a presumably non-biased application. Asking people to show you their skin color (and age, and gender, and disabilities, etc) on a job application is, if nothing else, against the federal Civil Rights Act. Although YC isn't hiring for jobs, screening people for funding based on skin color, age, gender, and other physical characteristics on the application itself is still wrong. In YC's case, if they don't like the look of you then you don't even get an interview. YC's decision to interview is based on natural bias of whether you look like paulg, paulb, robert, jessica, harj, or trevor. There's a word for that: "prejudice".