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>"we shared the stats on founders born outside the US. it's not a perfect map to race, but it's not a bad one either." It's pretty well established that there
by incision 12y ago
>"we shared the stats on founders born outside the US. it's not a perfect map to race, but it's not a bad one either."
It's pretty well established that there are lots of people who were born outside the US in tech in general [1] and among founders specifically [2].
Simply noting the same isn't necessarily saying anything.
>"there are people of all colors in this YC batch."
That's great.
Seeing numbers broken out by ethnicity would be a lot more interesting as it would facilitate a more direct comparison to the rest of the recent releases on diversity.
1: http://www.technologyreview.com/news/516546/silicon-valley-fights-for-immigrant-talent/ http://www.technologyreview.com/news/516546/silicon-valley-f...
2: http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/01/immigration-and-entrepreneurship/ http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/01/immigration-and...