For black CEOs in Silicon Valley, humiliation is a part of doing business

Re:For black CEOs in Silicon Valley, humiliation is a part o... by churchillracist on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @03:37AM (#23548840)

It happened to Sundar. There was an incident at a tech conference where he was walking through the booths and some people started asking for selfies with him. The "booth guy" who had condescending look grabbed Sundar's nametag slightly tugging on his neck without requesting his permission to see who he was. People were shocked at how rude the physical contact was. More ought to have been made of that. That booth guy should have been at least reprimanded for doing that to anyone, let alone Google's CEO.

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Re:For black CEOs in Silicon Valley, humiliation is a part o... by forgot_user1234 on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @04:59AM (#23549315)

I haven't heard about this incident BUT it still doesn't shows why there are so many indian CEOs.

I really doubt that it's the norm.

Look at the numbers not the anecdotes.

There are disproportionate number of Indian CEOs. It would have been impossible with racism and what not.

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Re:For black CEOs in Silicon Valley, humiliation is a part o... by dang on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @02:23PM (#23554822)

That's a non sequitur and flamebait. Please don't post like that to HN. It's only going to lead to worse.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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Re:For black CEOs in Silicon Valley, humiliation is a part o... by forgot_user1234 on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @03:15AM (#23610782)

Hey Dang,

In guidelines it says "have something genuinely new to say. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents"

tbh, I am really curious about the situation.

Why do Indian-Americans have a disproportionate numbers of High paying jobs i.e founders, CEO, CTO etc?

Why do indian-americans have a median salary of 120k?

What are they doing right?

I could have framed it in a better way but the question still stands.

Thanks!

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Re:For black CEOs in Silicon Valley, humiliation is a part o... by churchillracist on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @06:05AM (#23549695)

Multiple of these incidents have happened to Sundar.

""What are you, press?," asked the Samsung representative. After being let in - Pichai was inquisitive about Samsung's new smart fridge. The profile reveals similar incidents happened multiple times over at CES."

"Even after looking at the name on his badge, the rep had no clue that this curious, friendly inquisitor was one of the most powerful people in technology. "

https://magazine.wharton.upenn.edu/issues/spring-summer-2020...

> It would have been impossible with racism and what not. It would have been impossible with racism and what not.

Please explain the reasoning of why it would have been "impossible".

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Re:For black CEOs in Silicon Valley, humiliation is a part o... by scrollaway on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @09:13AM (#23550934)

It sounds like a lot of these are just people being clueless who Sundar is, not necessarily biased to thinking "he's Indian, so he can't be one of the most powerful people in tech".

I don't know Sundar well enough to recognize him in the streets or at a press event if I haven't spoken to him first. Same goes for a lot of CEOs of various ethnicities.

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Re:For black CEOs in Silicon Valley, humiliation is a part o... by churchillracist on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @10:12AM (#23551613)

Is it normal to have someone you've never met pull your lanyard like that without asking for permission first?

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Re:For black CEOs in Silicon Valley, humiliation is a part o... by scrollaway on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @10:42AM (#23552001)

No, that guy just sounds like a dick. It doesn't matter where you're from.

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Re:For black CEOs in Silicon Valley, humiliation is a part o... by Throwsfnabf04 on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @11:08AM (#23552339)

STOP. This is so racist, you generalized all Indians into once category. Kashmiri's who faced genocide? What about the Punjabis for faced a genocide?

You don't realize it, but all indians in one category is a white thing, created by WHITE people.

So stop with "so many Indians", it's not equivalent.

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Re:For black CEOs in Silicon Valley, humiliation is a part o... by cutemonster on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @06:49PM (#23557736)

(Now sounds to me as if you're yourself generalizing about others based on their skin color and grouping them all together)

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