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"And they happened to be all women. To me, that’s diversity at its finest." Nice conference and all, but a rather puzzling take on the concept of "diversity".
by eplanit 12y ago
"And they happened to be all women. To me, that’s diversity at its finest."
Nice conference and all, but a rather puzzling take on the concept of "diversity".
- pritianka 12y agoFair point - I wasn't very clear. Often diversity is simplified to gender or race, etc. In my definition diversity means including people who look, think, act, work and study different. I expected YC to be unidimensional with this conference and have people who are exactly like their typical accelerator applicant - young, white males, working on very technical products and startups - except female, attend. However, when I met the other attendees I saw that YC had transcended that uni-dimensional idea and brought in people from all walks of life, technical or not, local or not. I think that's a multi-layered definition of diversity. YC did a great job of expanding itself from "tech startup incubator" to a facilitator of dreams, technical or not, startuppy or not. Does that make more sense?