NewMe Accelerator, Aiming To Encourage Black Tech Entrepreneurs, Has Its First Demo Day
Yesterday someone asked me whether the reason most of my avatar photos are silly is because otherwise I would have to deal with people constantly bringing up the fact that I don’t “look” like I should work in technology, meaning that I’m a (relatively not nerdy) woman.
While I had never consciously thought about it, the answer is yes (“silly” at least is off-putting, while “woman” just means “has no idea about tech”).
The concept of minority in Silicon Valley is a bit unique; White, Asians and Indian males are relatively well-represented while Latinos, Blacks and women are not. For some reason our community is exclusive to an extreme. I mean, people used to give Arrington guff for being a lawyer (!).
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