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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. 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.

Negative. Any founder (for profit or non-profit) will tell you that hyper growth/scale is a derivative of resources. You’re being disingenuous to claim otherwise. And I say this as a founder whose org has had more demand than we could meet since day one.

Our story may be an exception. Our launch video (which was personally funded by me and my brother on a shoestring budget) had 10M views, ~1M petition signatures, ~20,000 teacher signups, before we had a single employee or outside funding.