Ask YC: Are all VCs wannabe frat boys?(commonwealthvc.com)
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Ask YC: Are all VCs wannabe frat boys?
http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/Team
Bonus points: caption that sucker
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Where are the african & hispanic americans? Females? Do these groups of people not innovate & or get into the innovation investment world in Silicon Valley?
I don't think that's fair.
If I were starting my own small company, my first hires would be people from my personal network that I've worked with before and trust/like.
And it's completely conceivable that your personal network could be limited to white males without you being racist (especially if you are ~50 now, and went to HS/College/Work back in the 70s/80s). As a few trivial examples, consider that you were sent to a private unisex secondary school which was mostly white. And then in college you joined a frat that was incidentally mostly white (like many are). And then you work for McKinsey/Goldman/etc as your first job for which, especially back then, was mostly white.
Through no fault of your, most of your connections happen to be white males. And I don't see anything wrong with that (FWIW, I'm not a white male, and I'm probably a minority in my own social group).
If I were starting my own small company, my first hires would be people from my personal network that I've worked with before and trust/like.
And it's completely conceivable that your personal network could be limited to white males without you being racist (especially if you are ~50 now, and went to HS/College/Work back in the 70s/80s). As a few trivial examples, consider that you were sent to a private unisex secondary school which was mostly white. And then in college you joined a frat that was incidentally mostly white (like many are). And then you work for McKinsey/Goldman/etc as your first job for which, especially back then, was mostly white.
Through no fault of your, most of your connections happen to be white males. And I don't see anything wrong with that (FWIW, I'm not a white male, and I'm probably a minority in my own social group).
Are you taking the piss, or are you just being PC?
That photo badly needs photoshopping. The caption needs to be "Individuality"
"Individuality Is Irrelevant"