Paul Graham on Building Companies for Fast Growth

Re:Paul Graham on Building Companies for Fast Growth by anovikov on Tuesday August 27, 2013 @04:35AM (#6282203)

pg is not a politician who must appeal to all to be successful, so why do you wonder? he just thinks of the things that work. I run an outsourcing shop, and if i clearly knew that black gays are 2x productive for the same rate i'd quickly turn worst racist/sexist guy you seen.

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Re:Paul Graham on Building Companies for Fast Growth by abalone on Tuesday August 27, 2013 @05:02AM (#6282313)

Only politicians should be concerned with racial equality? Wow.

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Re:Paul Graham on Building Companies for Fast Growth by webdevsometimes on Tuesday August 27, 2013 @09:14AM (#6283177)

Only politicians have to pretend that everyone is 100% equal in every way, because they can't afford to offend anyone. pg, on the other hand, doesn't need to worry about that as much because what matters is whether the startup is successful or not. If there is a pattern indicating that a certain group of people are particularly bad at running a business, why should he take the higher risk associated with investing in them?

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Re:Paul Graham on Building Companies for Fast Growth by abalone on Tuesday August 27, 2013 @03:04PM (#6285435)

Because correlation != causation, and applying "pattern recognition" to race and gender is racist and sexist.

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