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.
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As Ayah mentioned in her piece yes you do have the benefit of scale but honestly? That’s to be expected because you all are also the most heavily funded org working in the space.
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A few comments. I didn't say I didn't talk about specific orgs. I said I don't remember. My interview was over 9 months ago
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But I agree with you, it costs me absolutely nothing to highlight specific orgs, and only lifts everybody up. It is stronger to do that than to just highlight the "community." I tried doing that in the blog post at top of this tweet thread, and will aim to do even more.
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Our mission hasn't changed since our first year 2013. We launched in 2013, and even the very first
#HourOfCode we focused on and celebrated diversity of participation. Even my planning docs before my first hire referenced broadening participation by underrep groups.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
It's possible our messaging was refined or changed in a way that made it on your radar later.
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Lastly, I don't think our funding is why we have scale, I think it's the other way around. We weren't the best-funded to start. 10M girls tried
@codeorg the first#HourOfCode. We were 13 people, 1 year in, total lifetime spend of $3.2M.2 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
But... there's a different point you make which is true: my personal access and connections helped. No amount of money can buy some of the help we received early on to promote computer science.
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I decided to give up my tech career, my salary, savings, and used every bit of access and connections I had to promote CS. My ask was "promote computer science, not
@codeorg" which is why you never see bill gates or celebs etc saying our name, they say coding or CS1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
This raised a tide which lifted all boats, including
@codeorg's. It built the brand for#HourOfCode (which is a much bigger name globally than@codeorg). That then helped us get funding. Our scale came before the funding.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
Your more important point is correct that all that was uniquely possible because of the career I had built beforehand. I regularly encourage other people in tech to give up their salary+career and instead use what they have for social impact. Make the world a better place.
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