Let’s Stop Talking About the Sexism in Venture

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"When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure." - Goodhart's Law

Hiring a minority individual because they are a minority individual and it makes you look better, marginalizes everything else that person is. Which only serves to exacerbate the issue that this action is supposed to be solving.

Great observation. So if we have to choose between diversity as a target and as a measure, which would be better ?

I wouldn't take the comparison to affirmative action too far here. Our startup / VC ecosystem exists to drive radical progress and to achieve success where it seems unlikely. So let's go for it and get creative.

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