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Re:I’m a white guy in Silicon Valley and I’m done buying the... by zdean on Tuesday September 01, 2015 @04:40PM (#10155521)
Because his argument is that even adjusting for the pipeline issue, women and minorities are under-represented. In other words, even if you fixed the pipeline issue, they would still be discriminated against and under-represented because of bias.
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Re:I’m a white guy in Silicon Valley and I’m done buying the... by exstudent2 on Tuesday September 01, 2015 @04:46PM (#10155574)
His numbers are all over the place. Most of the stats he provides are for executives and investors which don't require STEM degrees, yet he uses STEM graduation as his initial stat.

I don't even know what this means:

"0% of partners at some of our largest Bay Area VC firms are women"

So > 0% of partners of the largest Bay Area VC firms are women, since he qualifies the statement with "some"?

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Re:I’m a white guy in Silicon Valley and I’m done buying the... by josh_cutler on Tuesday September 01, 2015 @04:56PM (#10155665)
I think it means that there are large firms whose partners are 100% male.
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