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Hiring an agitator who challenges leadership can add huge team value
“I also, and this is just something that I really like to do every now and then I'll hire an agitator on purpose. So like somebody whose orientation is a little bit like shake stuff up, not for the purposes of destabilizing, but somebody who I know is just like…”
American workplaces are built on historically segregated, inherently biased systems
“I think if you look at the history of work in this country, it's always been segregated, right? It's always been segmented, and so we're working within systems that weren't designed to be inclusive. So even if we have the best intentions, the organizations tha…”
Hutchinson: Black founders with elite networks and credentials still lack VC funding
“Like we have black entrepreneurs who go to the right schools, whatever that means. Who, you know, have access to some of these networks. They also don't get funded.”
Hutchinson: Silicon Valley pattern matching excludes Black founders from success archetype
“So I think in Silicon Valley, there's a culture of pattern matching, which it's very limiting in a lot of ways. But when, you know, these picture the next Mark Zuckerberg, they don't picture a black kid. You know, they don't picture a black woman.”
Black tech employees bear uncredited DEI labor and risk workplace retaliation
“I think a lot of us have kind of done this dance over the past few years where we're the first point of contact when something serious happens, and we make a bunch of suggestions. A lot of them are ignored. We don't get promoted. We don't get any credit for th…”
Tech allies should back existing organizers over launching new standalone initiatives
“I think quite often it can be tempting for someone to see, you know, these marches and say, we're going to start our own thing, and there are people who've been doing this for a really long time, and I think the best use of our energy is to support their work …”
Hutchinson: Tackling Systemic Racism Requires Structural Incentives, Not Just Training
“Training itself is not enough, and if you really want to tackle systemic racism, and you really want to engage in behavioral change, you have to have structures in place in your environment to incentivize the behavior you want. And that address the structural …”
Hutchinson: Culture Is Formed by Rewarded Behaviors, Not Values Statements
“The behavior that gets rewarded and the behavior that gets punished or censored is what really forms the culture. You can say words all you want, you can go to all the trainings you want, but if there's no accountability around personal behavior and how we bui…”
Companies rarely evaluate executive job performance based on DEI metrics
“I've not seen companies do that. I've seen some proposals that would encourage organizations to do that, but I haven't really seen it in practice on the ground.”
Hutchinson: Black women entrepreneurs grow quickly but hit growth ceilings
“Some of the fastest growing groups of entrepreneurs are Black, like Black women, a fastest growing group of entrepreneurs, but we also, our businesses tend to be smaller, We tend to hit a ceiling fairly quickly. We're not necessarily able to stay over the long…”