Laura Weidman Powers

Operating Partner, Base10 Partners · 1 appearance on the record.

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Laura Weidman Powers co-founded and served as CEO of Code2040, a nonprofit expanding tech pathways for Black and Latino talent. She later served as a senior advisor to the U.S. Chief Technology Officer during the Obama administration and became an Operating Partner at Base10 Partners.

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Powers: Average tech salary exceeds combined Black and Latino household incomes

“That wealth gap, that income divide and how the salary of an average tech worker is more than the median household income of a black family and a Latino family combined.”

Laura Weidman Powers Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 5:46 a16z Podcast | If Coding is the New Literacy, How Can More People Code?

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Assertion Supported

Powers: Average tech salary exceeds combined Black and Latino household incomes

“That wealth gap, that income divide and how the salary of an average tech worker is more than the median household income of a black family and a Latino family combined.”

Laura Weidman Powers Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 5:46 a16z Podcast | If Coding is the New Literacy, How Can More People Code?

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Powers: Only 6% of Silicon Valley startups have an HR function

“I'm gonna bungle the statistics, but I read that the percent of Silicon Valley tech startups that actually have an HR function At a point when, you know, most organizations elsewhere in the country do is like six percent.”

Laura Weidman Powers Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 25:09 a16z Podcast | If Coding is the New Literacy, How Can More People Code?

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Powers: Post-Ferguson study showed white social networks are over 90% white

“Our social networks statistically speaking, are pretty homogenous. There was a really amazing study published after Ferguson showing that white people's social networks are 90 plus percent white.”

Laura Weidman Powers Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 31:12 a16z Podcast | If Coding is the New Literacy, How Can More People Code?

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Powers: Nearly 20% of US computer science graduates are Black or Latino

“Nearly 20% of computer science grads each year that are black or Latino around the country”

Laura Weidman Powers Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 31:41 a16z Podcast | If Coding is the New Literacy, How Can More People Code?

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Episode	Date	Speaking time
a16z Podcast \| If Coding is the New Literacy, How Can More People Code?	Jan 2, 2019	10m

Laura Weidman Powers

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