“How many white male CEOs are in this room,” asked former NBA commissioner David Stern from the back of the room, “versus the one for the China roundtable next door?” Stern, who is white and male, had a point. Here at the annual Fortune Brainstorm Tech...
Another Bay Area tech company is setting up shop in Seattle. This time it’s analytics startup Mixpanel, which recently opened its first remote engineering office in the South Lake Union WeWork building with three employees. The San Francisco-based company plans to hire at least eight more...
WASHINGTON — Black Entertainment Television founder and serial entrepreneur Robert Johnson has a simple answer to explain the lack of diversity in the startup community – lack of money. “African Americans lag in a significant way in personal net worth, and that’s a problem in this...
As Uber prepares to open its new offices in the former Sears building in Oakland's Uptown neighborhood, a different kind of technology hub is settling into its own new headquarters just a few blocks away. The Kapor Center -- part nonprofit, part community center and part...
“I’ve gone to hackathons in the city and it’s noticeable when you’re the only person of color,” Dylan said. “That feeling of being alone makes people less likely to want to join the field.” The scene on Thursday — a crowd of young, mostly black...
Facebook's third diversity report in two years shows its demographics have shifted very little, with African Americans and Hispanics still comprising a tiny fraction of the tech giant's workforce. Hispanics represent 4% and African Americans 2% of Facebook's U.S. workers, percentages that have not budged since...