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"It is filled with Evan Spiegels, brash young white men who have the world at their feet and have never known the problems of others. This is partly " This sta
by bobosha 13y ago
"It is filled with Evan Spiegels, brash young white men who have the world at their feet and have never known the problems of others. This is partly "
This statement is inaccurate at best, more than 1/2 of start-ups in the valley and 25% nationwide are by immigrants (overwhelmingly Asian). So to say it is "filled by white men" is to ignore that a growing bulk of founders are foreign-born and non-white.
- samiur1204 13y agoGood thing you responded to a statement that admittedly lacked data with a statement that also lacked any real data except some statistics pulled out of the derriere. Here's a real study done that found that 87% of VC-backed startup founders are white, and 89% of VC-backed startup founders are male: http://www.cbinsights.com/blog/venture-capital/data-race-gender-silicon-valley-venture-capital-diversity http://www.cbinsights.com/blog/venture-capital/data-race-gen...
- bobosha 13y agoActually, before attacking someone you need to do bit more research: http://www.forbes.com/sites/singularity/2012/10/15/how-indians-defied-gravity-and-achieved-success-in-silicon-valley/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/singularity/2012/10/15/how-india... Also look up Anna Lee Saxenian's work. http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~anno/Papers/Americas_new_immigrant_entrepreneurs_II.pdf http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~anno/Papers/Americas_new...