The Impact of K-Por Capital on Diversity and Culture

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This company's founder recognized they were falling short of their diversity and culture benchmarks on the engineering side. Listen to their solutions because it may remind you of the Bit-Y story from earlier in the show. They ended up having a boot camp like program where they were able to attract non-traditional candidates as well. These solutions helped the company change the makeup of their engineering team which in turn changed their culture for the better.

In part 2 of this episode with veteran founders and investors Mitch Kapor & Dr. Freada Kapor Klein, we get into the data of building human-centered cultures. In part one, we heard how Mitch and Freada went all-in on investing their values, committing 100% of new investments in “gap-closing” companies that aim to improve society, even as they aim for scale and liquidity as well. Now, Mitch and Freada can share how that’s played out in practice, with both positive examples … and some negative ones as well. (Yes, they were early investors in Uber!)

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