The goal is laudable, but there's such a small chance of success in startups that selecting for anything other than likelihood to succeed is a dangerous strateg

The goal is laudable, but there's such a small chance of success in startups that selecting for anything other than likelihood to succeed is a dangerous strategy. Is that likelihood to succeed correlated to gender? Possibly, but not so likely. I could see they believe that there's an untapped reservoir of talent that's both highly likely to succeed and does not have an appropriate path to startups (which is what it sounds like). But it'll be a long, long uphill battle to develop the support network that can help such people succeed.