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Re:VCs Promised to Help Black Founders – My Experience Shows... by anticonformist on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @06:29PM (#23774909)
Her experience is the same. Zero funding is zero funding. Your experience cannot be worse than "received no money" when it comes to raising money. It is a binary outcome.

She's receiving equal treatment.

But she's expecting and explicitly asking for preferential treatment based on the her belief that VCs have promised it.

It could be that these VCs were never intending to offer preferential treatment. Or that they meant that they would offer preferential treatment to black members of the Ivy League. Neither of these answers would be surprising.

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Re:VCs Promised to Help Black Founders – My Experience Shows... by anotherfounder on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @06:56PM (#23775149)
> . Your experience cannot be worse than "received no money" when it comes to raising money. It is a binary outcome.

Oh, but it can. That's kinda one of the points.

> Or that they meant that they would offer preferential treatment to black members of the Ivy League. Neither of these answers would be surprising.

Not surprising but inconsistent with the talk.

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