any investor or investor group with enough data points to offer such a judgement This is a self fulfilling prophesy. Like a 'black swan'. If PG meant to criti

any investor or investor group with enough data points to offer such a judgement This is a self fulfilling prophesy. Like a 'black swan'. If PG meant to criticise (or point out) that poor communication skills are unproductive, his comment would be banal. He chose this as a cute, cock-tail party line. It was just a poor decision on his part. Its not too dis-similar to another famous SV/C who admitted 'he knows no black people'. OK, great. No we have two prominent people in the Valley who use the rule of thumb: no blacks, no funny-sounding people. Quite embarrassing, really.[0,1] __________________ [0] 'I don't know a single black entrepreneur' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lS93R1YnK-U http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lS93R1YnK-U [1] http://www.eeoc.gov/laws/types/nationalorigin.cfm http://www.eeoc.gov/laws/types/nationalorigin.cfm National Origin Discrimination & Work Situations The law forbids discrimination when it comes to any aspect of employment, including hiring, firing, pay, job assignments, promotions, layoff, training, fringe benefits, and any other term or condition of employment. National origin discrimination involves treating people (applicants or employees) unfavorably because they are from a particular country or part of the world, because of ethnicity or accent ___________________ Note that investing is not hiring; there is no employer-employee legal relationship. BUT, <Entreprenuers> need to be careful as they do in fact hire employees. So this is pretty ??? advice to entrepreneurs unless it comes pro-bono legal advice.