Diversity

“What we have shown in our research is that when people hire in sets, meaning, you know, let's hire five at a time as, you know, everybody will bring on all our new folks together. We'll hire five people all at once in April instead of sort of one person per mo…”

“My view is that diversity inherently is neutral in most cases. It's neither good nor bad.”

“I think it's not helping diversity. It's really not helping us as women, I believe, if we're being put into like a separate corner where we're being like, you know, looked at as pets almost, you know, it's like, oh, look, how cute, you know, it's a woman.”

“Well, I think diversity is a diversity is a subset of truth. I mean, I think, you know, it's, it is a one of the things that we learn in truth seeking is that human beings understand the world prismatically, that we come at truth from many different angles, ma…”

“If you really want to strive for diversity in the New York Times, I'm sorry, but getting people of different skin colors who all went to the same four boarding schools and universities is not genuine. They all think the same thing.”

“The value of having diversity, particularly in product teams, because you have people who've come up in different educational backgrounds, different philosophical backgrounds, different religious backgrounds. They've experienced different pressures through the…”

“The standard is also a fifty-year-old, largely male, with operating experience of It's dirty years and has built up a huge ton of liquidity that massively prevents anyone diverse or with a non-obvious background coming into this industry from actually creating…”

“Diversity. More women, more people of color. That is a cancer running through the tech ecosystem today, and it's one that's really hard to cure.”

“Oftentimes when people talk about diversity, this whole notion of quote, lowering the bar, not lowering the bar comes up. But when you actually sit down and look at it, most groups that are, have not been very diverse or even set a bar in the first place.”

“When your group embraces diversity of all kinds, when you actively cultivate different viewpoints and different approaches to problem solving, you immeasurably increase your chances of uncovering not just new ideas, but new industries, new opportunities, and n…”

“The challenge is that you're recruiting from a really, really limited subset of students, and you're not actively able to win over the best candidates on each campus, which is terrible for diversity, terrible for winning over the very best candidates possible.”

“Diversity and independence are completely different issues. Lack of diversity is when everyone's thinking the same way. Independence is slightly different, where people are diverse, but when they go to express their opinion, then they're collectively influence…”

“So we are focused with diversity, not on whether the founder is diverse. We're looking for companies that are, you know, I think that the wording in the RFS is, you know, we want to fund nonprofits and startups that are working on making technology a place tha…”

“I think a lot of organizations of all stripes, Emphasize the virtues of diversity, which are, which certainly is of some value, but they're not necessarily clear on how to manage diversity, right? So it's not just to have it. It's how do you take advantage of …”