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I was once working at a startup in the south bay area, where "white developer" was not one of the people who was able to do what we wanted, as an engineer, for a startup which had a tech foundation. This was a big problem for most companies.

The thing is, this group had really terrible problems in the first place.

Most startups are very different from the valley because of the nature of technical talent. But the people who come from the valley are pretty good at what they do.

The problem is the lack of culture.

In most companies there are only a few minorities:

* There are enough great tech people that want to start their own companies.

* Some have to get a job as a software developer, because there's a strong market saturation of smart people right in the first place.

* There are few places a tech founder can get to start a startup.