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The board is made up of about 25 experts, among them Shoshana Zuboff, author of "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power"; Maria Ressa, a co-founder of the Filipino independent news site Rappler; Rashad Robinson, president of the civil rights nonprofit Color of Change; Derrick Johnson, president of the NAACP; Reed Galen, a co-founder of the conservative anti-Trump super PAC The Lincoln Project; Ruha Benjamin, an associate professor of African American studies at Princeton University; Marietje Schaake, a Dutch politician who is international policy director at Stanford University's Cyber Policy Center; Toomas Hendrik Ilves, the former president of Estonia; Safiya Noble, an associate professor of information studies and African American studies at UCLA; Damian Collins, a member of the British Parliament; tech investor Roger McNamee, a frequent Facebook critic; and ex-CIA officer Yael Eisenstat, former head of election integrity operations for political ads at Facebook.

Marc Benioff is one of Paul Ryan's big donors.... maybe he should start paying taxes with action instead of talking about it in self serving press interviews

chief diversity officers will make a corporation more diverse - that is their job. companies that do PR around their diversity are not doing it right - D&I is an industry competitive advantage. The most diverse organizations in the Fortune 1000 outperform their industry median financial returns by 35%. I agree the 'covert' manner works but the role of chief diversity officers is critical to the macroeconomic impact of globalizing and increasing market representation in our modern workforces.

Yes - I have an hour every Saturday I put aside for a weekly mentoring meeting. I have a lot of people reach out to me for advice, but as a founder I don't have time to meet every request. Instead, I have my Saturday afternoon hold each week for a call or coffee with people who reach out for guidance on hiring engineers, fundraising, starting a startup so there is a controlled time slot for mentoring meetings. Being a founder is really hard, we're a startup that is post revenue, post seed venture, post product market fit - but everything just seems more complex as we get bigger and there are more failures all the time with bigger consequences. These mentor meetings with founders just starting out give me a healthy pause to realize how far we've come and I feel better knowing I can help other new founders not feel so alone in the early stage process.

mcclure was married and she knew it when he did this.

HE WAS MARRIED

from yc 2015 class jopwell

any other new dads on hacker news? What tips do you have?

happy father's day!

Will hacker news ever be able to stamp out misogyny in this community? I really hope so. Whenever an article gets posted about my startup (we're a women led team) the comments section get's real sexist really quickly - look forward to the day that finally changes.

THIS IS NOT A BRAGGY POST.

The female founders conference is probably one of the best days of the year. I saw so many friends, women I know on the Internet, and I cried tears of joy three times during the speeches. It's hard to be what you can't see. Jessica and Kat have done an AMAZING job of putting female founders in front of us so we can look and say, hey you know, Kathryn Minshew did YC, I CAN DO IT TO.

Even though our startup didn't make it into the last YC batch, we're applying again. We love the community, we love the yc philosophy and approach to building products and we want to inspire other women just like us to apply.

Thank you for writing this letter and sharing what we all think, yesterday was incredible.

I love this!! Really interesting to get a product perspective on this process

2006 — Make quail hunting interesting.

tips for how to be your most confident self this year (preview #10 is listen to more rap music)

When I first moved to the valley (as a writer) I found I had so much in common with my new friends who were software engineers. Our personality traits were similar, and we wore hoodies and stayed up all night. I'm actually a brilliant math student but writing was the skill set I pursued. I'm really glad you wrote this -- there are so many fascinating parts of software engineering and bright minds whom I would love to learn more insights from!

I can relate to this article so much!! I'm in my late twenties and I sleep in like a teenager. The mornings are so painful for me. I also eat a lot of pasta.... so will try this new trick!

patti smith just kids

Celebrating all the other startup nerds working on their dreams this holiday season :)

This isn't surprising. Uber is scaling so quickly and in the race to get more cars on the road it's avoiding proper driver background checks. These are important hires that should be more thorough, in each city. As a woman, this is my worst nightmare. I only ride lyft now because I know the drivers spend time with Lyft's staff and there is a vetting process.

really awesome startup in oakland is doing something similar and they are AMAZING. check out http://josephine.com/

so true-insurance seems the biggest barrier to making this successful

i think in general, given this landscape, it's just safer to publish without 'naming names' as a way to also protect the company. The last thing all the investors would want would be for the company to get a bad name for leaking information to one bad investor- putting the fault on the founder for his or her mistake, which takes away from the product and team with a silly scandal.

I'm an adult woman with adhd and it's definitely been an advantage as an entrepreneur. When I hyper focus on our company, brilliant things happen because I can think out of the box and my passion and obsession for our product has my undivided attention. Needing to constantly shift work environments, go for walks, and multitask has worked well for me in my startup life. However, in my former corporate life, it was at times crippling and embarrassing. I really appreciated this article because it elevates the need for those with adhd to choose the work environment best fit for their behavioral needs and hopefully sheds light to a wider audience that adhd is in fact 'a real thing'. In a previous corporate role, when i spoke to HR about my daily struggle working in an office environment with tv's on and lots of cubes with loud people talking, they didn't take me seriously and just thought it was a 'millennial' problem. I had to work saturday nights and sundays just to complete my work because during the work week it was so difficult to focus with all the surrounding noise. I lied to my manager about all my weekend work because she down played the very realness my adhd had on my ability to focus like I was making it up. I hope this article brings to light that many people do suffer from adhd and to take their work environment requests seriously. I hope it also encourages those with adhd to be more vocal about it.

Talk to your users! Before we started building our product, we spoke to hundreds of people in our target audience. We asked them their needs, their problems, and most importantly - what they wanted. We could zero in our solution to their problem by uncovering what they wanted most. So go talk to everyone you can about your idea and see what the audience you want to serve thinks about it.

always speak up, never keep your mouth shut, there are laws in place to protect against retaliation for speaking up. One of the unspoken factors in a compensation plan is that women tend to work for less (ie they typically don't negotiate for more). I am a woman, and I've learned to ask for more, but I used to just take what i was offered for face value. It is possible the company expects no one to speak up- and so it goes.

LEAN IN- sheryl sandberg. It is not just a book for women- it's a great book for everyone to learn about creating a more advanced work force, building confidence, and learning when to question authority. It's so motivational, especially for programmers who might want to start their own company one day.

I think this was an incredible move by zuckerberg and he should be applauded. I studied mandarin in grad school and then spent some time in China studying female chinese consumer behavior. Though my study participants were excited to practice their english with me, i was shy to practice my mandarin with them and I totally regret that as now my mandarin is almost gone. By truly taking steps to communicate with the very important Chinese market, Zuckerberg once again demonstrated his leadership skills by being brave as he made himself vulnerable to mistakes. I'm sure the many people in China who idolize him were also humbled to see him try something outside the comfort zone of a billionaire ceo.

if someone is calling you a homophobic slur you shouldn't absolutely report them to hr - no matter what gender they are.

Hey so I've had this problem multiple times at work-the answer is to talk to HR about it. Don't talk to him, let HR know it's a problem and then it's up to them to make changes. If this conversation and his demeaning attitude towards women doesn't not continue to change-report again. You can not get in trouble for this at all-that's retaliation and that's illegal

for your wife, check out http://www.mothercoders.org/ - great organization for software engineers that are mothers. I'm sure they will have resources for both of you and it's a wonderful community of developer parents!

My dad worked from home while my mother worked in the city when we were younger. One way they made that work was by hiring someone to do the house hold chores (cleaning & laundry) so that responsibility was covered and their focus outside of work was about taking care of us instead of the house. hope that tip helps!