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a16z Podcast | If Coding is the New Literacy, How Can More People Code?
- ▶ 0:24 Susan Mernit I'm a former Yahoo, Netscape, and AOL product development executive, and when I moved to Oakland, I started an organization called Hack the Hood that teaches coding and tech skills to low-income young people of color.
- ▶ 5:25 Susan Mernit I mean, they didn't have any access to understanding what the jobs were, how they would get there, and that was a big part for me of becoming interested in Hack the Hood.
- ▶ 12:57 Susan Mernit I think for me, it's that I'm very focused on outcomes and on user-centered design, and with Hack the Hood, we started to iterate and did a pilot in 2012, got funded in a program in 2013, and I felt this incredible sense of responsibility… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:21 Susan Mernit Hack the Hood is working with very low-income kids of color, and I think it's very important for tech companies to understand that it's not just about increasing the pool of people of color and women who go to Stanford and get out and have… 2 times in the scene