Going 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

Going 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.