For black CEOs in Silicon Valley, humiliation is a part of doing business
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#2wow, it sure is fashionable these days to point your finger and call people racist. Had a rough day? Been confused with someone else? racism.
Re: For black CEOs in Silicon Valley, humiliation is a part of doing business
#3wow, it sure is fashionable these days to point your finger and call people racist. Had a rough day? Been confused with someone else? racism.
> Guest after guest walked past the pair of executives to greet their White employee, offer their congratulations and ask how he got the idea for the product.
This sort of thing has never, ever happened to me. Nobody has ever suggested that I hire a wingman of a different ethnicity or gender or anything similarly asinine either.
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#5This is an interesting and in-depth article that was inappropriately flagged. I've turned off the flags.
I understand the impulse to flag follow-up stories [1], especially on the hottest controversies of the moment, which always produce a flood of articles, most of which aren't very good. Curiosity and repetition don't go together [2]. But it's important to recognize the articles that are higher than median quality and not simply flag an entire category mechanically. Curiosity isn't mechanical either.
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Re: For black CEOs in Silicon Valley, humiliation is a part of doing business
#6Re: For black CEOs in Silicon Valley, humiliation is a part of doing business
#7This is an interesting and in-depth article that was inappropriately flagged. I've turned off the flags. I understand the impulse to flag follow-up stories [1], especially on the hottest controversies of the moment, which always produce a flood of articles, most of which aren't very good. Curiosity and repetition don't go together [2]. But it's important to recognize the articles that are higher than median quality a…
> This is an interesting and in-depth article that was inappropriately flagged. I've switched off the flags.
Consider that people are not flagging it because "it's a follow up article", but because a) it's Bloomberg, ergo hard to believe b) it's the seven billionth "minorities in tech" story in the past month c) it's not going to create an interesting comment section d) they don't find it as interesting as you do.
It's your site of course, but if "moderators build the front page" is the new modus operandi, I'll be disappointed.
Re: For black CEOs in Silicon Valley, humiliation is a part of doing business
#8wow, it sure is fashionable these days to point your finger and call people racist. Had a rough day? Been confused with someone else? racism.
Could you please stop posting flamebait and unsubstantive comments to HN? We ban accounts that do that, and you've unfortunately been doing it for months now.
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#9My boss did this to a client once. He was not amused and soon thereafter became a former client.
Re: For black CEOs in Silicon Valley, humiliation is a part of doing business
#10wow, it sure is fashionable these days to point your finger and call people racist. Had a rough day? Been confused with someone else? racism.
> Guest after guest walked past the pair of executives to greet their White employee, offer their congratulations and ask how he got the idea for the product. This sort of thing has never, ever happened to me. Nobody has ever suggested that I hire a wingman of a different ethnicity or gender or anything similarly asinine either.
Not sure about silicon valley but this sort of a thing is common in international businees. Depending on who you are meeting with, ethnicity can help or hurt impressions and negotiations.