[askafriend]

You completely and utterly misrepresented what he was saying in this post which makes me question whether you read it in the first place.

Let me roughly refute your points (I don't have time to go more in depth right now, sorry):

1. He never said a hacker ethos is required.

2. He's saying he believes that development of a hacker ethos takes significant time and that may explain why there are few women at the time of his statement who seem to have it. Point being that cultivating it en masse is generational.

3. He never makes this claim, you seem to be extrapolating it heavily.

4. This point is accurate but you stripped the context.

5. He's saying the skewed funnel doesn't allow for YC to have a higher ratio of women. Phrasing matters, and I think yours is inaccurate. You also injected the phrase "main reason" which he never claims.

[abefetterman]

From The Information interview:

You can tell what the pool of potential startup founders looks like. There's a bunch of ways you can do it. You can go on Google and search for audience photos of PyCon, for example, which is this big Python conference.

That's a self-selected group of people. Anybody who wants to apply can go to that thing. They're not discriminating for or against anyone. If you want to see what a cross section of programmers looks like, just go look at that or any other conference, doesn't have to be PyCon specifically.