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They are more likely to have foreign accents, surely
by 001sky 13y ago
They are more likely to have foreign accents, surely
- tptacek 13y agoI know that this is just a lame dig at Paul Graham's advice that it's helpful for pitching founders to be intelligible to customers and investors, but I'm also not sure it's true. There's this place called "continental Europe". Also a pretty big strip of Asia called "Russia".
- 001sky 13y agoThere is a massive bias for white founders (~87%), to the detriment of minorities (~13%). This is masked slightly by the fact that Asians dominate minority founders (12% to 1%). These numbers are "under-representations" in relation to university populations, even for asians. [1,2] [1] http://www.cbinsights.com/blog/venture-capital/venture-capital-demographics-87-percent-vc-backed-founders-white-asian-teams-raise-largest-funding http://www.cbinsights.com/blog/venture-capital/venture-capit... [2] http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/01/how-americas-top-colleges-reflect-and-massively-distort-the-countrys-racial-evolution/267415/ http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/01/how-amer...