[bufbupa]

"It's ludicrous to think good ideas only come from North America and white males."

Sure, not what gp said, but agreed.

"but if you want to elevate those that don't come from privileged backgrounds"

Just some unsolicited feedback, the original race/gender quote from the article and this statement leads me to interpret that you either value equality of outcome (EG: all of these startups should have proportional distributions of gender and race in all positions) over technological advancements, or that you suspect the organization is biased to some detrimental degree.

This feedback isn't meant to insinuate that you actually believe either, just that it was my interpretation from the seemingly out of context nod to race/genders of the startup founders.

For example, if you'd have included a quote along the lines of "The startups announced by BEV so far are all above 6' tall". The statement would seem to insinuate that there's either something wrong with being 6' tall (analogous to something wrong with being white/male), or that the organization seems to unfairly favor tall people.

[hef19898]

There is nothing wrong with being a white male nor with being 6 foot tall. But maybe there is something wrong when white males are overrepresented (in my opinion there is).

Also, there is no historical bias towards 6-foot people. But there was, and is, a lot of bias towards white males. For me it's fair enough to call that out.