113 - Opening Tech: The Diversity Challenge. With Anu Duggal, Female Founders Fund; Kathryn Finney, Digital Undivided; Ruben Harris, Career Karma

2019-03-02

There’s little question that technology – software – is shaping the future of our work, our play, and even how we form opinions. But who is shaping that technology? It’s been quite an economic run. The stock market’s been climbing for a decade, and in that time, tech companies like Apple, Google, Amazon and Facebook have gone from underdogs to overlords. Even as that’s happened, employees and observers have settled on a nagging question: Is there room for more women and minorities on the campu...

There’s little question that technology – software – is shaping the future of our work, our play, and even how we form opinions. But who is shaping that technology?

It’s been quite an economic run. The stock market’s been climbing for a decade, and in that time, tech companies like Apple, Google, Amazon and Facebook have gone from underdogs to overlords. Even as that’s happened, employees and observers have settled on a nagging question: Is there room for more women and minorities on the campuses and in the startups where this future is crafted?

With me in New York this week, Anu Duggal, founding partner at Female Founders Fund. Joining me from Atlanta, Kathryn Finney, founder and managing director at Digital Undivided, which encourages entrepreneurship among black and Latina women. And from San Francisco, Ruben Harris is CEO of Career Karma, host of the Breaking Into Startups podcast.

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