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By Foster Kamer 11/16/11 3:42pm

Video: How To Get Nobody To Take Your Startup (or Diversity In Tech) Seriously, Ever

Thank you, Matt Langer, for directing us towards one of the most sadistic treatments—”bastardization” is unfair to bastards, here—of the entire genre of rap music, ever, delivered at the hands of a startup rapping about how they’d like some VC money.

And yes, of course they’re white. Read More

By Foster Kamer 11/09/11 4:41pm

CHANGE *THIS* RATIO LADY

Nonshocker: Tech Behemoths So Embarrassed of How Diversity-Lacking They Are, They Want To Cover It Up

Would it surprise you to learn that some of the largest companies in Silicon Valley and technology at large are disproportionately Caucasion? What about so diversity lacking it makes your average investment bank look like a Sesame Street? What about so goddamn white they’re working to cover it up? Well then! Do we have news for you: Read More

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Video: How To Get Nobody To Take Your Startup (or Diversity In Tech) Seriously, Ever

Nonshocker: Tech Behemoths So Embarrassed of How Diversity-Lacking They Are, They Want To Cover It Up

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