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There is a war for Women Dev's in silicon valley. Google's HR head mentioned in a podcast that they are simply poaching female devs' from smaller players to get their diversity numbers up. This puts smaller players at a major disadvantage as VC's have started tying their funding with diversity numbers. There is no way a startup can compete directly with Goog for the female dev's who are in major short supply.

This diversity madness is putting SV at a major disadvantage.



> This diversity madness is putting SV at a major disadvantage.

On the contrary, evidence suggest Silicon Valley is putting itself at a disadvantage by failing to attract talented women. Other non-SV technology markets do far better: http://www.inc.com/kimberly-weisul/women-tech-problem-silico...


If it's not too much trouble, could I ask for sources on 1)

>Google's HR head mentioned in a podcast that they are simply poaching female devs' from smaller players to get their diversity numbers up.

and 2)

> VC's have started tying their funding with diversity numbers.


If VC do anything but focus on getting investment in the best companies they are not fulfilling their fiduciary duty to their investors - even if that anything is saving starving children in Africa.




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