Tech Diversity Files
A compendium of pieces gathered to offer perspectives, insights, and ideas that can move us forward as a culture that has (mostly) decided it wants to be more inclusive—let’s make it happen!
Privilege and inequality in Silicon Valley
Why “few successful startup founders grew up desperately poor”My co-founder David and I both grew up in poverty and can call ourselves “battle-tested” when it comes to both life and startups, so when the talk in the Valley turned to income inequality, our ears perked up. For a moment, our two worlds were colliding. Here’s a quote from Paul Graham that got our attention. ¶ “Closely related to poverty is lack of social mobility. I’ve seen this myself: you don’t have to grow up rich or even upper middle class to get rich as a startup founder, but few…
Ricky YeanJan 22
I suck at diversity.
This is my first Medium post, and it’s going to be a doozy. This was too long for a Twitter rant, so I’m just going to hammer on my…keyboard for a few minutes. Who needs editing? ¶ When it comes to diversity, I fuck up a lot. This post is going to make me seem like an asshole, but I’m an asshole that’s slowly learning how to be better, and I want you to take a shortcut and learn from my mistakes. ¶ I’m a white woman in tech. I know how to create scalable infrastructures, I can write code to do what needs to be done, but I’m not going to be able to tell you how to fix the diversity problem.
Randi HarperJan 20
