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Re:VCs Promised to Help Black Founders – My Experience Shows... by s4n1ty on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @02:14PM (#23772646)
Does she offer any actual evidence that she was rejected due to racism? She just seems to assume it.
Re:VCs Promised to Help Black Founders – My Experience Shows... by dang on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @02:15PM (#23772669)
Please don't post flamebait or snark to Hacker News. Would you mind reviewing the site guidelines? Both of those are deprecated, and there's this, too:

"Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive."

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

Re:VCs Promised to Help Black Founders – My Experience Shows... by s4n1ty on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @02:30PM (#23772823)
Edited to be less provocative.
Re:VCs Promised to Help Black Founders – My Experience Shows... by Geoffhk on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @02:37PM (#23772893)
The part where she doesn't get a response when using her email but does when using her partner's email is pretty convincing. There are many studies that gauge racism in hiring by sending out resumes that only differ in candidate's name.
Re:VCs Promised to Help Black Founders – My Experience Shows... by xibalba on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @02:45PM (#23772978)
I don't think so. The husband's resumé is dramatically more qualified that the author's. He has multiple startups/exits and was a FAANG engineer.
Re:VCs Promised to Help Black Founders – My Experience Shows... by anon102010 on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @03:17PM (#23773274)
Is she similarly qualified?

I never realized these racism studies were done using such different resumes. This is a bit shocking if so.

You have a multi-exit google engineer vs a trainer?

She doesn't share her deck?

A quick look - did she buy reviews (the block of 5 star reviews)?