For Stanford Class of '94, a Gender Gap More Powerful Than the Internet
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#2Very good article. I must admit, the more I read about Thiel, the less I like him.
It's unclear to me why they think that SV is more meritocratic than anything else. Sports still seems much more meritocratic than SV. Any industry that depends so much on getting funding hardly seems like it would be especially meritocratic -- at least at first blush.
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#3Front page of NYT? Must be a slow news day...
Interesting collection of stories, though.
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#4That title is a bit misleading.
I read this yesterday; it's pretty jumbled. It's an article that jumps around a bit describing how a couple of the people from the Stanford Class of '94, specifically David Sacks and Jessica DiLullo Herrin, made a lot of money using the internet.
It doesn't really get into the reasons there are fewer female than male entrepreneurs from that class, at least not with any depth, and then it concludes by saying that people from that class are getting into internet startups now.
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#5Why do articles like this always divide it by gender and never combine gender and race? There are more Asian women featured in this article and probably included in the class than black (and potentially hispanic) men, despite the fact that the population of black men is and was in 1994 larger than Asian women.
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#6Very good article. I must admit, the more I read about Thiel, the less I like him. It's unclear to me why they think that SV is more meritocratic than anything else. Sports still seems much more meritocratic than SV. Any industry that depends so much on getting funding hardly seems like it would be especially meritocratic -- at least at first blush.
The more I read about Thiel, the more I wonder how someone so smart can be so dumb.
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#7Very good article. I must admit, the more I read about Thiel, the less I like him. It's unclear to me why they think that SV is more meritocratic than anything else. Sports still seems much more meritocratic than SV. Any industry that depends so much on getting funding hardly seems like it would be especially meritocratic -- at least at first blush.
The more I read about Thiel, the more I wonder how someone so smart can be so dumb.
Most people don't question views that justify their wealth.
Re: For Stanford Class of '94, a Gender Gap More Powerful Than the Internet
#8Very good article. I must admit, the more I read about Thiel, the less I like him. It's unclear to me why they think that SV is more meritocratic than anything else. Sports still seems much more meritocratic than SV. Any industry that depends so much on getting funding hardly seems like it would be especially meritocratic -- at least at first blush.
Whenever you call something "meritocratic" it's almost always a circular definition. How do you define "merit" in Silicon Valley and how do you know the "most meritorious" are the ones winning? If you don't have an independent objective measure of "merit" other than "success in Silicon Vallay" your assertion is merely tautological.
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#9Why do articles like this always divide it by gender and never combine gender and race? There are more Asian women featured in this article and probably included in the class than black (and potentially hispanic) men, despite the fact that the population of black men is and was in 1994 larger than Asian women.
I've always wondered why the tech industry is so obsessed with the gender gap and yet almost completely ignores the race gap.
Is the gender gap really a bigger problem, or is it because men in tech think they are more likely to socially benefit from championing gender equality?
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#10How exactly are they measuring this "gender gap"? At one point it seemed their argument was that female graduates didn't found as many companies as male graduates. (Though it seems like there could be a lot of different explanations for that.) The quote about how women "played a support role instead of walking away with billion-dollar businesses" comes from the founder of a web site for female writers, which made me wonder if it was more advocacy than analysis.
I am concerned about the role of women in Silicon Valley, so it was nice to see that the Times' reporter notes that few women "described experiencing the kinds of workplace abuses that have regularly cropped up among women in Silicon Valley." It would've been nice if this article had more statistics about what specifically happened to the class of '94