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But you haven't backed up your "pipeline" assertions by anything either.

Many of their specific questions are about whether a workplace is supportive of women and minorities. It's plausible that if many workplaces fail these tests, then tech would be a less appealing career choice to young people "up the pipeline" no matter how strongly it's promoted in school.

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Startup's job is not to accommodate "young people's career choices". If you spend 25% of your time thinking about how to make your company more diverse when you're a 5 people company instead of thinking about your customers, your "diverse company" will probably be gone by next year.

You're absolutely right. 100% of your employees time should be spent maximizing profit and growth, and any unwarranted deference to human values is just going to inhibit survival and wealth, which are the most important things in the world.

One day we'll all be cockroaches: great at surviving with zero appreciation for culture.

Good to hear you agree.

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Yeah that is reasonable. Large companies can probably make a big difference.

Small startups have a tough enough job already without also optimizing for employee diversity. Max Levchin talks about this as well: http://firstround.com/review/the-trick-max-levchin-used-to-h....

He was taking about diversity of ideas, not race & gender.

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