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and overnight, Sequioa's firing rate of Founder-CEO's drops... yes or no?

That's great that you won't lower the bar for female applicants. Does that mean you will remove gender-identifying information from applications before evaluation/processing? that could be a cool way to do things and a great experiment...

I think it is a positive thing to discuss the structure of the scholarships, whether one agrees with it or not. Let's have an open discussion of it.

I would love to see alternative methods to involve women more in coding rather than just paying them.

The current method just 'feels wrong' to me.

I've also seen programming competitions with a 'top female programmer' award but no 'top male programmer' award, which also feels wrong, even if the intent comes from a very positive place.

I've spoken w/ several female developers/engineers and they were not excited about that kind of structure.