There was a reddit announcement the other day that stated /u/kn0thing was stepping down from the board and requested that a black person fill his place.
are boards not considered employees. feel like this would violate labor laws.
They are not.
It’s a board seat for a company that produces a cultural product, there is no reason it had to be another person in tech, though there may have been an unstated intention to make sure that the representation of YC associated individuals on the board stayed the same or increased.