If you want to understand Silicon Valley, watch Silicon Valley

Re:If you want to understand Silicon Valley, watch Silicon V... by swampthinker on Monday November 19, 2018 @03:41PM (#18489591)

My favorite Silicon Valley anecdote:

"During the review process once the footage [of Techcrunch Disrupt] was woven in, another editor criticized the crowd shots for not featuring any women and blamed Berg for the oversight.

'...Those were real shots of the real place, and we didn't frame women out.The world we're depicting is f---ed up.' said Berg"

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.businessinsider.com/hbos-si...

Sorry for the amp link, the main page was broken.

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Re:If you want to understand Silicon Valley, watch Silicon V... by DoreenMichele on Monday November 19, 2018 @10:32PM (#18491640)

Surprisingly even-handed piece:

There's been debate about whether "Silicon Valley" the show should have more diversity than Silicon Valley the place, but Berg argues that a show made for entertainment not meant to be a "social-action wing" or be a force of change - the show is just satirizing the reality that the tech industry itself needs to take care of.

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Re:If you want to understand Silicon Valley, watch Silicon V... by BurningFrog on Monday November 19, 2018 @11:07PM (#18491734)

One thing that mildly annoys me about the show is how white the cast is.

At least in my Silicon Valley career, the "cast" around me has been vastly less so.

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Re:If you want to understand Silicon Valley, watch Silicon V... by derangedHorse on Monday November 19, 2018 @11:38PM (#18491827)

I have no idea where you're working at but if you've ever looked at Google's public diversity report (one of the largest companies in the valley), you'd see that your Silicon Valley career does not reflect what the majority of people in this very large company experience.

https://diversity.google/annual-report/

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Re:If you want to understand Silicon Valley, watch Silicon V... by STRiDEX on Tuesday November 20, 2018 @12:31AM (#18491981)

Some of the other staples of the bay area.

Yahoo Tech workers 31% white https://yahoo.tumblr.com/post/152561899994/yahoos-2016-diver...

Ebay Tech workers 29% white https://static.ebayinc.com/assets/Uploads/Documents/eBay2017...

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Re:If you want to understand Silicon Valley, watch Silicon V... by BurningFrog on Tuesday November 20, 2018 @12:09AM (#18491928)

By this report Google is 56.6% white.

My experience is that white male Americans are roughly 25% of the Silicon Valley workforce, but if you bundle in white immigrants and women you might reach 40-50%.

As I remember the TV show, the main characters are 80% white, and the Indian guy is the whitest one I've seen.

Small sample, I know, and I'm not offended. Just a little bored...

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Re:If you want to understand Silicon Valley, watch Silicon V... by tonystubblebine on Tuesday November 20, 2018 @12:52AM (#18492046)

Pakistani fwiw.

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Re:If you want to understand Silicon Valley, watch Silicon V... by smt88 on Tuesday November 20, 2018 @02:29AM (#18492345)

> the Indian guy is the whitest one I've seen

What do you mean by that? Can you explain?

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Re:If you want to understand Silicon Valley, watch Silicon V... by choot on Tuesday November 20, 2018 @05:51AM (#18492961)

> What do you mean by that? Can you explain?

Maybe he means culturally

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Re:If you want to understand Silicon Valley, watch Silicon V... by throwawaywhynot on Tuesday November 20, 2018 @08:37AM (#18493668)

Either way, it's weird, and wrong. Honestly op sounds more racist lol

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Re:If you want to understand Silicon Valley, watch Silicon V... by smt88 on Tuesday November 20, 2018 @12:00PM (#18495351)

So a guy who was born and raised in Pakistan and has a Pakistani accent is culturally white? What exactly does that mean? Does it mean that he’s educated and wealthy?

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Re:If you want to understand Silicon Valley, watch Silicon V... by choot on Tuesday November 20, 2018 @12:29PM (#18495618)

I think he means, that guy is more culturally white than the Indians who he finds in the SV.

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Re:If you want to understand Silicon Valley, watch Silicon V... by scarejunba on Monday November 19, 2018 @10:06PM (#18491550)

Funny. When I read this the first time, I looked up the writing credits (including/excluding/only guest writers) and heir genders and there was a picture painted there that was quite amusing :)

Not at all surprising considering it’s Hollywood, but amusing nonetheless.

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Re:If you want to understand Silicon Valley, watch Silicon V... by danaos on Monday November 19, 2018 @09:27PM (#18491429)

> Sorry for the amp link, the main page was broken.

https://www.businessinsider.com/hbos-silicon-valley-had-dive...

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