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Re:VCs Promised to Help Black Founders – My Experience Shows... by harryh on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @07:16PM (#23775303)
At least some other industries with problems (law, medicine) have an oversupply of practitioners that is limited by cartel behavior. This does make this problem a bit more tractable.
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Re:VCs Promised to Help Black Founders – My Experience Shows... by tptacek on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @07:24PM (#23775363)
I think that's a fair point! There needs to be a sustained effort across the board, I think; the solution will be iterated, and involve continued lifts both from the labor supply and the demand side of industry.

What worries me is that we have a coordination problem, and if you snipe at efforts to make employers retain more URMs, you're damaging the case for the pipeline to supply more URMs.

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