Re:For black CEOs in Silicon Valley, humiliation is a part o...
by hckr_news on Thursday June 18, 2020 @12:58PM
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This reminds me of a Nairobi-based startup who tweeted a job posting in which they were looking for a white male to join their team to act as a face for the business. I don't know if it was in jest but it was hilarious and sad.
Re:For black CEOs in Silicon Valley, humiliation is a part o...
by dheera on Thursday June 18, 2020 @07:11PM
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This is basically what DJI did. Sad world but I bet they wouldn't have gained so much traction and investment if their marketing wasn't always full of white people using them (they did this right from the very beginning).
Re:For black CEOs in Silicon Valley, humiliation is a part o...
by Throwsfnabf04 on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @11:16AM
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Yeah this is real man, but products win in the end of the day, beat them, it makes the competition harder, so what? I am in the same boat, work twice as hard, racism won't give you time, this can take decades to fix. Best of luck
I'm not black, but I'm also not white, and I've been suggested this numerous times as well by well-meaning people after our startup not being able to fundraise for several months but some of our white-male-founded competitors had successfully raised. One friend was even joking about a "white-guy-as-a-service" to help minority startups get funded -- i.e. hire a white guy to show up to your VC pitch (or maybe pitch it for you) and your chances of funding would probably astronomically rise.