"Jesse Jackson wouldn't be heading to Hewlett Packard or any of the other big tech companies if they had done their job and accomplished diversity," she says. "

"Jesse Jackson wouldn't be heading to Hewlett Packard or any of the other big tech companies if they had done their job and accomplished diversity," she says. "He's shining a spotlight on one aspect of the growing inequality of this country." I think that the problem of diversity in tech starts long before your interview at a Silicon Valley company. It starts at home, and at school. If you get more children of color exposed to technology (the making side, not the consuming side), math, and science early, then you'll have more of them in college, and more qualified candidates of color applying for Silicon Valley companies. What you expose kids to early on shapes what they'll become later on. If you emphasize basketball and football to Black kids, you'll get an NBA and NFL that are 70% Black.