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A comment on Ask HN: How many YC companies have African American founders?.

Re:Ask HN: How many YC companies have African American foun... by byoung2 on Thursday December 26, 2013 @01:02PM (#6967126)
Not sure if this has changed since 2011, but according to this article:

http://money.cnn.com/2011/11/11/technology/diversity_acceler...

Another Y Combinator representative told CNNMoney: "We've never collected any stats about people's race or ethnicity. It's not a big factor when we're judging applications."

Maybe the founders (if any) can identify themselves

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Re:Ask HN: How many YC companies have African American foun... by wudf on Thursday December 26, 2013 @02:08PM (#6967497)
And if it were a big factor, it would show in the statistics. Case closed, please move on everyone!
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Re:Ask HN: How many YC companies have African American foun... by ovoxo on Thursday December 26, 2013 @02:48PM (#6967682)
LOL @ "It's not a big factor when we're judging applications". Because, it is a factor ... but, not a big one.
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