Panel: Birds of a Different Feather Soar Together
summary
Panelists name concrete fixes: run a public speaking program (56 attendees) to prep diverse speakers; partner with Google/Twitter/Uber to run targeted workshops that turn learners into hires; set hiring accountability and a written culture deck (Netflix model) early; structure orgs as small microservices teams with stable APIs to avoid process “scar tissue”; use employee resource groups in hiring decisions; and enforce conference quotas (FlowCon’s 50/50) which yields higher-rated female talks. Numbers cited: critical mass ~20–30 people, current VC diversity near single digits.
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chapters (16)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:33Question
- 4:10Battery Ventures
- 7:20Where is the pipeline occurring
- 9:10Hardest part of growing a team
- 11:22Challenges of growing a team
- 13:15Conways Law
- 16:31Whats Missing
- 18:27Company Culture
- 21:31The State of the Market
- 22:36Diversity in VC
- 30:15What do you look for in people
- 35:59Audience Question
- 36:54Employee Resource Groups
- 38:59Education for STEM
- 41:29Ellen Pao
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