Hadi PartoviVerified account

Yup. Definitely understand that. But it was also an opportunity “during” the interview to elevate other contributors. I’ve done this in interviews, on stage, with funders in private discussions for YEARS.

Of course. Since you want to do this on Twitter, can you let me respond to all your tweets before responding? The twitter threads are hard to nav on a phone. And, yes, I know you understand.

In terms of what I said, one thing you didn't criticize is the (high-level) narrative of "not enough women in jobs ...wealthy white guy solution = teach girls to code", as if the only problem is the education pipeline. I'm guessing you know that's never been my narrative.

When I tell our story, I don't focus on my financial success, I focus on being an Iranian immigrant and the challenges with that. The pressure of editing left out a large part of what I say. I always talk about other organizations in our space as well.

My interview lasted ~ 1 hour. The parts that made it lasted 4 minutes. I don't remember specifically if I did or didn't uplift specific orgs, but I'm sure I spoke about the CS community at large because I regularly do.

It not enough to speak about the community at large. At least not in this context when there are clearly many SPECIFIC orgs and reps who’ve done a good bit of heavy lifting around diversity in tech way back when Codeorg didn’t focus on diversity. At all.

Your mission has seemingly changed to center a focus on women and minorities over the last few years but there have been many of us doing this work for almost a decade if not more.