Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submitlogin

I don’t still work there but checking out the page it looks like it hasn’t been updated in a while.

The company is closer to 40 FTE now, and we employ people of several minorities and protected groups, including LGBTQ, Hispanic, and Asian folks.

The President (whom I chose as my successor) is a woman. The product owner is a gay man. The support team manager is a lesbian. The lead developer on one product is a Chinese national. There are several people on the onboarding and support team who are Hispanic. These are just people I participated in hiring. I have no reason to believe the company has changed in their commitment to diversity.

When I left, the company was ~65% female, which was a conscious choice I made to try to do my part to get women more involved in tech. We went to great lengths to ensure equal pay.

Feel free to ask any of my former employees how we valued diversity and I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised.

On a personal level, my wife is 1/2 Latina, making my child 1/4 Latino. We encourage him to learn his ancestor’s language and explore their culture. I’ve lived in South America and love their culture. In fact, we are currently in the process of moving to Costa Rica and am setting up a program with local public schools where I’ll be donating my time (and money by providing computers) to teach programming to interested children.

Honestly, I find your post to be highly insulting.



Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: