Stacey's high school had been 98% African American. Why were there so few black people in the tech industry? She took those questions to her then boss at Google, Cheryl Sandberg. "I think we need to create a network for black people and I really think we should just recruit more"
You may think that to scale you need to cut humans out of the equation. The opposite is true. You can harness the power of the “human cloud” to solve almost any problem — as long as you keep the word “human” in the equation. That’s what former TaskRabbit CEO Stacy Brown-Philpot champions for this community of people who work with each other, teach each other, and continually learn from each other.
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