USA: Racism in Silicon Valley?

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In a culture that maintains its belief in the individualism of the American entrepreneurial spirit, we tend to turn Silicon Valley tech founders into heroes and public figures.

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By Samantha Allen | August 22, 2014

America’s fastest growing financial and political powerbase is totally dominated by white men. This is not progress.

In a culture that maintains its belief in the individualism of the American entrepreneurial spirit, we tend to turn Silicon Valley tech founders into heroes and public figures. When Steve Jobs passed away, shrines were built for him around the world, from Cupertino to Beijing. In 2010, Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg received the star treatment in David Fincher’s The Social Network. Even Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey is entering the public eye, thanks to his recent march alongside protesters in Ferguson, Missouri, in the wake of the Michael Brown shooting.

But if you don’t work in the tech industry, you have probably never heard of people like Chris Sacca, the tech investor behind Lowercase Capital, which has, as his company website notes, “quietly become one of the largest venture funds in the United States.” Sacca has invested in dozens of tech start-ups including, most notably, Twitter, Uber, Instagram, and Kickstarter. You’ll never see a Chris Sacca biopic but his behind-the-scenes influence in the tech sector is substantial. [more ... ]


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