Catalyst - Is It for Diversity and Inclusion?

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i was at a adadventure capital fund in madrid, where it did my my m b a. Yes, back stage was the first fund i worked for. And then your chief of staff at catalite. What is that? Well, we're working on addressing the tectalan gap. We do have an arm that is staff og. So you need developers now, in forty eight hours, we can get them for you and to you. They are seasoned, seven plus years of experience across tek stacks,. so one and so forth. A second arm that was really the one that brought me in, which is an opportunity to bring people from all walks of life...

0:01 Jason intros Tom Uebel & Lolita Taub
5:17 George Floyd/Black Lives Matter protests impacting Venture Capital, Angela Benton's tweets about her bad experience with Cowboy Ventures, how can VC move forward and be better towards underestimated founders?
17:37 Lolita & Jason reflect on some imperfect investor moments towards founders
23:55 How investor bias towards underrepresented founders manifests itself
28:23 Tom on focusing on diversity in hiring at the earliest stage of a companies life, how people with raw talent miss out on opportunities due to pattern-matching
39:23 Zoom's shuts down a Chinese pro-democracy account, importance of Data privacy at Command E, Jason's thoughts on Zoom only giving end-to-end encryption to paid accounts
52:36 Wall Street Bets, Meme stocks and a new generation of Robinhood traders
56:59 Reddit appoints YC CEO Michael Seibel to its board after Alexis Ohanian steps down, former interim CEO Ellen Pao has words for current CEO Steve Huffman
1:03:07 Issues of free speech & why relying solely on government organizations may be the wrong decision
1:05:45 Juneteenth observation, potential reparation ideas
1:10:27 Assessing COVID-19 recent death numbers & risk of getting back to work
1:23:03 Lolita shares her founder-investor matching tool
1:25:30 Tom demos Command E