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The iconic VC-Backed founders are all White & Asian men. So why invest in diversity?

David Teten

based founders, 35 were white* American; four were white immigrant/first generation, from France, Ukraine, Russia and Iran; and four were Indian immigrant/first generation. All of the 40 companies’ 92 founders were male. Of the 43 U.S.-based Of the 19 Western Europe/Israel-based founders, all were white.

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Returning to East Jerusalem…

Pascal's View

But there is also a familiarity to all of this for me… I started this blog in early 2005 because of a chance encounter I had with an elderly Palestinian man in East Jerusalem on November 3, 2004. On the surface, East Jerusalem seems cleaner and quieter to me today than it did in 2004. Almost nine years later, I am back….

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