Startups Weekly: The George Floyd protests come home to the tech industry

Startups Weekly: The George Floyd protests come home to the tech industry

4 years ago
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https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/06/startups-weekly-the-george-floyd-protests-come-home-to-the-tech-industry/

The tech industry has generally wished that structural discrimination would go away, while pretending that it already has. But technology can be used by anyone for anything. And so, the world has watched video after video of police brutality against Black people in a real-time stream that plays through the closing days of quarantine, culminating in the death of George Floyd and ongoing protests. As employees have left their remote offices to hit the streets, even executives at the largest tech companies —who would usually avoid such complications — have expressed their support officially, online.

What can we expect to change now? After all, diversity and inclusion programs have been getting cut during the pandemic, and stats on employee diversity and VC partner/portfolio demographics have not seemed to be improving quickly over the past decade, at least in aggregate.