The racism of pg is subtle, but still racism, not so much from him but from his acolytes and zealots who even now in this thread can be seen taking his word as gospel and demote anyone who fits their interpretation of pg's words as an untouchable
Now these new untouchables will be rejected from many other accelerators who do nothing but copy whatever YC does in the vain hope that they too can land the next dropbox and airbnb, and rejected because they talk "funny"
At the same time expect to see a lot of teams made mostly of either foreign and domestic engineers who aren't "that good" when it comes to public speaking being indirectly coerced into accepting a dumb white bro as CEO just to get past the initial selection process of any accelerator.
And yet he supports FWD, a stealth superpac whose only mission is to get as many cheap temp. engineers as possible in the country.
Foreign founders are SOL, no company is going to hire he who will disrupt them out of the market, and those who get in are doomed to menial positions with no change of getting ahead in the company.
The real losers will be local engineers who will be priced out of the market, downwards I mean.
sliverstorm I'm curious what would you do if you were from one of those cultural backgrounds that are seen as bad for investors and were denied the opportunity to do something solely on the ground of your origin, an origin which you had no choice but to accept because you were born into?
And it does not matter that you are the next Jobs, because the moment the investors hear you greeting them with a foreign or exotic accent they are not paying any attention about what you have to say, at all.
What would you do? would you still support pg? even if that keeps you from ever being able to raise any funding?
Now these new untouchables will be rejected from many other accelerators who do nothing but copy whatever YC does in the vain hope that they too can land the next dropbox and airbnb, and rejected because they talk "funny"
At the same time expect to see a lot of teams made mostly of either foreign and domestic engineers who aren't "that good" when it comes to public speaking being indirectly coerced into accepting a dumb white bro as CEO just to get past the initial selection process of any accelerator.