1/ Lemme see if I can break this down. I'm spending a lot of time with VCs heading into YC demo day and there's an elephant in the room.
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2/ The fundraising process is definitely different for founders of color than it is for others. Both for the founders and VCs evaluating us.
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3/ Why? On the VC side there's inevitable pressure to not be racist. 'He's no different than anyone else.' So you don't touch race/ethnicity
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4/ On the founder side, esp in tech, race comes into everything we do. We succeed in spite of the biases that exist everywhere around us.
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5/ You think I don't know that I'm in rooms full of white/Asian men everywhere I go? That people don't openly question my qualifications?
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@_mattjoseph Half Korean. Half white. People question my qualifications all the time. It isn't always about race.
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