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I agree with you, about HN's audience, which is I guess what "bro culture" devolves into, and that the idea isn't crazy. Board room implies scale. If you don't
by BrianOnHN 5y ago
I agree with you, about HN's audience, which is I guess what "bro culture" devolves into, and that the idea isn't crazy.
Board room implies scale. If you don't have diversity at scale, in so many senses of the word, your doomed to fail anyway.
So many knee jerk reactions are a sad reflection of this community, though.
- BitwiseFool 5y ago>"If you don't have diversity at scale, in so many senses of the word, your doomed to fail anyway." That's not necessarily true. There are plenty of organizations all over the world that are not "diverse" but those institutions manage to succeed. Not every company needs to have a board room that looks like a university admissions pamphlet in order to operate and respond to competition.
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- throwawaysleep 5y ago> If you don't have diversity at scale, in so many senses of the word, your doomed to fail anyway. The market would have slaughtered tech firms if this were true.
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- newfriend 5y ago> If you don't have diversity at scale, in so many senses of the word, your [sic] doomed to fail anyway. Then why do we need a law banning it? If these white-male-only-board-led companies are doomed to fail, they should be outcompeted by sufficiently-diverse-board-led companies. I have a feeling the physical attributes of the board doesn't actually matter when it comes to a company's performance.
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- ThrowawayR2 5y ago> "If you don't have diversity at scale, in so many senses of the word, your doomed to fail anyway." If that were true, none of the tech giants in the US in the white male dominated '50s-'80s would have existed: IBM, AT&T + Bell Labs, Xerox + PARC, Digital Equipment Corporation, etc.