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Recode Decode: Frances Frei, SVP of leadership and strategy, Uber

Decoder with Nilay Patel

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The Low Standard Deviation Is Comforting

Uber and every other company has to find out what are we doing to hold back awesome women. I have never seen a world that was a true meritocracy that wasn't more demographically diverse. The word standards is only applied when it comes to making we want to lower our standards. Whenever I see a homogenous picture I think that we have been artificially holding back certain groups. It's really fascinating but the only time standards is mentioned is literally around but we have standards.

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