It’s been a week. People trying to understand what’s happening in technology. If you’ve been dividing, cheer up! Let me tell you what is going on now.
On Monday, WeWork founder Adam Neumann raised the seed for a new real estate company from Andreessen Horowitz at a valuation of more than $1 billion. Newman’s return, one of the biggest checks ever written by one of the most iconic firms, has drawn mixed reactions in the wake of the turmoil at WeWork.
A few days ago, Kimberly Bryant was fired from the Black Girls Code, which was founded by a board she appointed.
Caught: Within a few days our return and expulsion took place.
A common response is that women and people of color are not owed the same “second chances” as Neumann because first chances are adequate for historically neglected groups. Alison Byers, founder of Scroobious, a platform that aims to scale up startups and better support founders, described the feeling of “unvoiced anger”.
The return came from a white male who misled investors and workers. She was a dispossessed black woman who founded a non-profit organization to find more diversity in the coding world.
It’s a disaster if that’s where the analysis stops. As my partner Dominic-Madori Davis “People talk about these things not two things at once, but that’s with most debates online. They turn things and people into one-dimensional objects as if they were easier to analyze. If you’re not careful, you can find yourself spiraling into commentary that misses the multifaceted nature of the debate.
