I never thought of SV as a monoculture, when it comes to nationality and race (it does suffer from a bad case of groupthink though...)
In SV you will find engineers, designers and managers from all over the world --Russia, China, Europe, etc., and when it comes to race you will find very large numbers of highly successful Asians and Indians. Likely more so than in other US industry.
Re:Black Girls Code launching in Miami
by saltyknuckles on Friday October 25, 2013 @04:14PM
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What you just wrote didn't include black or hispanics. So now you have Black Girls Code.
Precisely. It's also struck me that the vast majority of the female engineers seem to work at a tiny handful of companies.
For example, Google is quite diverse, the attendees at I/O were not.
The other side is the rest of us should see it as an opportunity, given that the effective monoculture in SV gives them a sort of blindness to certain product areas.