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Disclaimer: I grew up in the same town as he did, and I really don't like him very much. I think he's taking the easy way out. It's easy to shame people becaus
by chiph 13y ago
Disclaimer: I grew up in the same town as he did, and I really don't like him very much.
I think he's taking the easy way out. It's easy to shame people because it's negative.
What I'd like to see him do is approach someone like Khan Academy and work with them to get more women & minorities learning the skills needed to work in high-tech. He should work on reforming the education system and get younger kids (of any race) knowing that it's OK to be smart and build stuff.
- HillRat 13y agoGoing after board appointments and funding is probably the right way to build forward motion, though. There's a real capital acquisition problem for female and minority founders, which generally leads them to seek funding from regions less-experienced in tech investments and less plugged into the industry. Board members in the tech world are almost uniformly white guys, which is IMO a performance and innovation problem as much as an optics problem. Improving diversity in STEM is a hard problem, because it begins with fetal and early childhood development and goes all the way through adulthood. But improving executive culture by increasing access for qualified persons can be done now.