The biggest issue that I see is how much startup founders justify the idea that they need to hire and promote people that they &#x27;would want to hang out with&#x27;, aka the people they would want to be friends with outside of work. This leads to an extremely homogenous workforce with almost no diversity, because people generally are attracted to those who look and act like them. Guys usually don&#x27;t see women and internally think &#x27;I want to be friends with that person&#x27;, white people don&#x27;t generally see a black guy and think &#x27;I want to be friends with them&#x27;.<p>Now obviously this isn&#x27;t universal, plenty of cross-group friendships exist, tons in fact, but they are usually formed by the people being forced together (work, neighbors, school). When hiring based on first impressions, though, this becomes a huge problem.