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>The two investors with whom Zhu seems to take issue were born and raised in South Asia and Turkey, respectively. You can't simply abstract all of Asia, from T
by whymauri 5y ago
>The two investors with whom Zhu seems to take issue were born and raised in South Asia and Turkey, respectively.
You can't simply abstract all of Asia, from Turkey to China, as a singular monolith. Now's a good chance to point out that the MIT 'Bamboo Ceiling' paper from 2020 makes this distinction in the title:
"Why East Asians but not South Asians are underrepresented in leadership positions in the United States"
https://www.pnas.org/content/117/9/4590.short https://www.pnas.org/content/117/9/4590.short
- dplavery92 5y agoI don't think he did abstract it that way; it's one point in a more holistic picture of Zhu's firing, which largely speaks against Zhu's own assertion that [investors such as Shah and Bicer] would be more comfortable with a white CEO: "You’re just pattern matching,” Zhu recalls telling them. “Your last 20 CEOs who went public, they were probably all Caucasian guys.” Note again that the same board replaced Zhu with his east-Asian partner, who also supported Zhu's ouster, and that each of the investors in question had funded other major start-ups with east-Asian CEOs.