Hadi PartoviVerified account

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.

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. so there’s that...

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

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.

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.

It's possible our messaging was refined or changed in a way that made it on your radar later.

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.