.@sama Did you know there are people who work full-time on diversity in tech? Instead of asking for free business advice online, HIRE ONE.
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@shanley i'm more interested in what the customers actually have to say. i've gotten great advice, and we'll be able to make great changes
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.@sama you wouldn't know good advice about this if it fucking hit the top of hacker news.
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.@sama WHICH IT NEVER WOULD BECAUSE YCOMBINATOR HAS SYSTEMICALLY ABUSED AND DISCRIMINATED AGAINST WOMEN FOR ALMOST A DECADE GET IT LOLOLOL
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@shanley are you sure about that? I'm still looking at the data, but i think we have more women as partners and founders than any other VC
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.@sama respectfully, disagree "@YCombinator has funded most women founders" even w/ your 5yr head start. happy to share @500Startups data.
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@davemcclure @ycombinator @500Startups you were on my list to check with! good for you guys. our last batch has about 25% of startups with
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@sama congrats, that's a pretty solid ratio.
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@davemcclure out of curiousity what's the ratio for your accelerator program?

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@sama historically, varies between 15-30%. however we also fund a large # of non-accelerator co's too.
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@sama recent SF batch was probably lower. next mt view batch likely higher.
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@sama in any case, this is a good topic to be competing on ;) cc @women2
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@sama @davemcclure would love you two to share % breakdown by application volume (not just investment volume); curious how those compare
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The Founder Visa (again) blog.samaltman.com/the-found… @sama #usa
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@sama @davemcclure from our research it was found that @500 was about 20% higher than the US average... yet, not so intentional. Go500!
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@sama @davemcclure FWIW at @EshipMIT accelerator we had 28% female founders, 47% female CEOs (13 co's, +60 founders)
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