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It's possible he's right that there's absolutely nothing more he could do. I think it's extremely unlikely, though. If women feel uncomfortable in YC-funded com
by ceol 13y ago
It's possible he's right that there's absolutely nothing more he could do. I think it's extremely unlikely, though. If women feel uncomfortable in YC-funded companies, I think that's a problem he could address. If women feel uncomfortable in the culture surrounding YC, I think that's another problem he could address. It's very un-hacker-like to, when confronted with a problem, throw your arms up in the air and proclaim there is nothing more you can do.
- wvenable 13y agoYou're still not addressing the point. If there is a shortage of women in computing then nothing you just mentioned will fix that. Sure those might be problems that could be fixed but that's not even what we're talking about. Those things aren't going to solve the underlying shortage.
- ceol 13y agoThat is what we're talking about... They're problems that need to be addressed that pg has decided aren't his responsibility. That's the whole point of what we're talking about. You don't need to mold someone from adolescence in order for them to be a founder or a hacker. It's not something you have to grow up with.
- wvenable 13y agoYou do need to mold someone from adolescence in order for them to be a founder or a hacker in their late teens and early 20's. PG is in the business of spending very small amounts of money on in the slim hope that a few of them will be wildly successful and return hundreds of times on that original investment in a relatively short time frame. He invests in people who move to the valley and live huddled together on peanuts and ramen. Those young people are a very small and specific subset of all people who can be founders or hackers. But Otherwise I agree with you entirely.