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1/ Only 1% of venture-backed founders are Black.
I& #39;m one of them.
On May 31, I sat crying next to my fiancee as she drove us from Santa Cruz to SF. I was overwhelmed by George Floyd& #39;s death and ashamed by how little I& #39;d done to support the Black community.
That changes today.
I& #39;m one of them.
On May 31, I sat crying next to my fiancee as she drove us from Santa Cruz to SF. I was overwhelmed by George Floyd& #39;s death and ashamed by how little I& #39;d done to support the Black community.
That changes today.
2/ There are many Black people doing incredible work in Tech.
We need more visibility so we can be examples of what& #39;s possible for others who looks like us.
Today, let& #39;s shine a light on some of us.
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We need more visibility so we can be examples of what& #39;s possible for others who looks like us.
Today, let& #39;s shine a light on some of us.
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3/ @swissbeatz is first up. Nathalie is a sales manager at Figma and an OLYMPIC RUGBY PLAYER (!!!)
4/ @6Gems, founder and CEO of Black Girls Code, introduces young women of color to programming and provides them with tools and opportunities to become innovators in STEM.
5/ @FrankDenbow is the big bro. Frank is a Christian artist, DJ, dancer, computer scientist, entrepreneur, and founder of @inkacustom.
You& #39;ll never meet a more resilient, resourceful person.
You& #39;ll never meet a more resilient, resourceful person.
6/ @dewayneroyj withdrew from school, booked a one-way ticket to San Jose, landed at a "hacker hotel" (a hostel!), and now does Business Development at Lambda School - one of the most talked about Tech startups!
7/ @tristanwalker is the founder of Bevel. I& #39;ve admired him from a distance ever since I read the cold email he used to get his foot in the door at foursquare.
8/ @haleymbryant recently took over as COO at Animalz. If you& #39;ve ever read a Tech blog post, it& #39;s likely that Animalz had a hand in writing it. Watch out for Haley!
9/ @web writes the fantastic 2PM newsletter and co-founded Mizzen+Main. Follow Web!
10/ @OneBandwagonFan is a community builder and founder+CEO of Bandwagon in Austin, Texas!
11/ @TalktoHenryJ helps people find jobs in Tech through his Rocketship Jobs newsletter!
12/ @ArlanWasHere is an all around boss. She is an author, podcaster, and founded Backstage Capital when she was HOMELESS.
13/ Shout out to @MandelaSH! Mandela is the founder and CEO of Founder Gym, a company that helps underrepresented tech startup founders raise money.
14/ @iaboyeji founded freakin ANDELA!
15/ @PhillipJLAubrey was an investor at the venture capital firm Initialized, and is now building a stealth financial technology company. 
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16/ @JemYoung was always so kind to me when we worked at Chartbeat back in the day. Today, Jem is a software engineer at Netflix and panelist on the Frontend Happy Hour podcast.
17/ @serenawilliams needs no introduction. The most dominant athlete of all time? Yep.
Now she also invests in Tech startups - ~60% of which are WOMEN OR MINORITY LED!
Now she also invests in Tech startups - ~60% of which are WOMEN OR MINORITY LED!
18/ @sarahkunst is the Managing Director at Cleo Capital, and works to empower a network of female angel investors who will help more diverse businesses succeed.
19/ @km founded Kindred Ventures and made early investments in companies ranging from Uber to Blue Bottle Coffee!
20/ @chudson is the Managing Partner (and founder!) of Precursor Ventures.
21/ @mwseibel is an ICON. He founded Justin . tv (you might know it as Twitch), is a partner and the CEO of the YC startup accelerator program, and was recently named to Reddit& #39;s board of directors after Alexis Ohanian stepped down.
22/ Adeyemi Ajao co-founded a startup that was sold to Workday, started a $1B+ Latin American ride-sharing company, and is now the co-founder & Managing Partner @Base10Partners.
23/ @mercebent is a Venture Capitalist at Lightspeed, a top VC firm, and writes about the future (check out her post on the experience economy!)
25/ @EricaJoy is a CHAMPION for diversity, equity, and inclusion in Tech, and has been an engineering leader at Google, Slack, Microsoft, and now GitHub.
26./ @david_doswell is a software engineer and an AUTHOR of a science fiction book about the future of Silicon Valley!
27/ @mrjabarihearn is the Vice President of Brand at Lyft and was a Global Marketing Director for years at Google.
28/ @SocialJeremy is the co-founder of a volunteering event that gets startups to give back to local nonprofits, and celebrates diversity through his Spotlight series at Crunchbase.
29/ @justbalbi is has shaped products at Vimeo and Squarespace as a product manager.
30/ @kelseyhightower has brought major products to market through Developer Relationships through roles as an engineer, engineering manager, engineering leader, and now as a Staff Developer Advocate for the Google Cloud Platform.
31/ @recursivefunk has built high-performing engineering teams as an engineering leader at Mapbox and now Till AND helps job-seeking adults in the Washington, DC area and Baltimore learn technical skills through @ByteBackDC.
32/ @fadeke_adegbuyi is a fantastic writer, sharing insights that help people turn tweets into opportunities and stay productive while working remotely.
33/ @kkomari is a senior business leader the VP of Corporate Development at Lyft and helped take the company public.
34/ @swannodette has built applications for the New York Times, the Modern Museum of Art, and frequently gives speeches about ClojureScript.
35/ @hadiyahdotme of HBCUvc is a software engineer who is teaching venture capital and building a community of innovators rooted in Historically Black Colleges and Universities.
End/ And there are so many more of us out here.
We have and will continue to excel in Tech.
RT or @ mention someone to celebrate them for setting an example.
We have and will continue to excel in Tech.
RT or @ mention someone to celebrate them for setting an example.
thanks for all the wonderful suggestions of folks i wasn& #39;t able to highlight the first time!
I& #39;ve added the following people to the list: @devarispbrown, @monifa, @iamgeoffpope, @ja_akinyele, @MichaelwEllison, @lo_toney, @timsalau, @rulesbycam, @MosesFeaster, @lymusing ....
I& #39;ve added the following people to the list: @devarispbrown, @monifa, @iamgeoffpope, @ja_akinyele, @MichaelwEllison, @lo_toney, @timsalau, @rulesbycam, @MosesFeaster, @lymusing ....
and more:
@antoniokey, @BrandonDHoffman, @MrStartup, @jongos, @kdwalker, @julesdwalt, @Sherrell_Dorsey, @michellebess
@antoniokey, @BrandonDHoffman, @MrStartup, @jongos, @kdwalker, @julesdwalt, @Sherrell_Dorsey, @michellebess
and I& #39;ll keep adding to the list here:
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