By Eric Ries (Contributing Writer, TechCrunch) Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you can’t have missed the recent dust-up over race and Silicon Valley. Like almost every discussion of diversity and meritocracy in this town, it turned ugly fast. One side says:...
By Jolie O’Dell (Writer, VentureBeat) The shopworn adage “It takes all kinds of people to make a world” is never more controversial than when applied to technology startups. “It takes all kinds of people to make a product” is much less accepted; diversity often...
Ruchi Sanghvi was an engineer at Facebook for five years, and was the only woman who was an original member of the team. Now she runs her own company, Cove. She discusses the difficulties and, ultimately, the rewards of being a woman in the tech industry. When Ruchi...
Ruchi Sanghvi was an engineer at Facebook for five years, and was the only woman who was an original member of the team. Now she runs her own company, Cove. She discusses the difficulties and, ultimately, the rewards of being a woman in the tech industry. When Ruchi...
By Freada Kapor Klein (Venture Partner, Kapor Capital) A few days ago, TechCrunch ran a piece by Bindu Reddy bemoaning the fact that when raising money as a CEO of a start-up, someone wanted to invest in her in part because she’s a woman. Bindu stated: “However, they...