[GuiA]

PG has clarified what he meant in HN comments for the original article:

"I am talking about failure to communicate here. I don't mean strong accents in the sense that it's clear that someone comes from another country. I'm talking about accents so strong that you have to interrupt the conversation to ask what they just said."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6279918

[vasilipupkin]

This makes a lot of sense to me. Originally, I thought PG was confusing correlation with causation and projecting from a relatively small number of data points. But I agree, if the accent is so strong that it's hard to understand, that person will have a more difficult time being an effective CEO

[jacquesm]

> that person will have a more difficult time being an effective CEO

In an English speaking community. But in their own country they'd be fine. This is about YC applicants. That really needs to be included in the quote, she moved the leading question to the part below it, which gives an entirely different impression than if that were the introduction.

[vasilipupkin]

Yes, of course. I meant in the U.S.