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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6/ Yea I'm thinking about that last interaction I had when I meet you. And yea it fuels and motivates me day-to-day. It's a strength.
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7/ To get anywhere as a minority in tech you have to be more resilient than those around you. That's a fact. We're held to a diff standard.
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8/ VCs - that's a positive and you should find ways to factor that into your analysis. Being a founder is about doing the impossible.
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9/ What better evidence do you have of grit than traction in a product in the face of all of that? Think about it
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10/ Some VC is gonna raise their hand and say 'I'm not racist, I don't care about where you came from, I just evaluate companies on merit'
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11/ Here's the thing dude-you invest in founders. You pattern match against other success you've seen. I don't look like Zuck or Butterfield
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