Do you have a source for this? Because as the founder of Facebook is jewish, Facebook might not be a representative sample. I.e. it's expected, since a large part of his social circle (family, friends) are also jewish.

I kind of don't want to touch this issue for obvious reasons, but a while ago I read that 20-25% of Ivy League students are Jewish [1]. It makes sense that they'd be over-represented in education-driven professions.

1. https://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/The-most-heavily-Jewish-US-co...

It's not just Facebook. Jews are massively over-represented at the highest levels of society in most fields.

<2% of population in America, <0.25% globally. But:

20% of Nobel prize winners

10-25% of Harvard students (depending on source and school)

33% of US supreme court (3/9)

6% of US Congress

8% of US Senate

There are equally or more extreme numbers for things like movie studio leadership, rech company leadership, newsmakers and opinion writers, actors, comedians, etc. I just don't have time to look up the figures atm.

To be clear, I'm not saying there's anything wrong or right about this; it's just an easily-verifiable physical fact.

On a world scale this is interesting:

Jews are only 0.2% of the World’s population, but 17.46% of the World’s billionaires. Thus their representation is 8,730% of their population share.

Of course any non-idiot would see this as simply an interesting fact worthy of researching out how being a jew correlates with success in a merit-based competency hierarchy... and not a reason to hate jews for conspiring to take over the world. While we're at it, we should probably also chill out on white men in general too.

Although i think this is normal behavior, it seems like a double standard. Wouldn't a white euorpean be inclined to do same thing (hire people similar to themselves)?

I hope that as tech expands to all continents and becomes a truly globally distributed sector, we'll stop caring about race at a specific company since tech will competitive and diverse on a global scale. (e.g. a firm in India competing with a firm in Germany competing with a firm in Brazil)