&gt; I would be more worried now about the same dynamic existing in every other startup that takes off. When a startup is on a break-out trajectory, it has its pick of applicants from a wide number of elite institutions. Most of them will never have experienced powerlessness or marginalization, because that&#x27;s what it takes to get into a hot startup. And so they generally won&#x27;t be able to empathize with what it&#x27;s like to have arbitrary fact X in your background taken and used against you in devastating ways, even if they do genuinely sympathize.<p>That&#x27;s not &quot;what it takes to get into a hot startup&quot;; it&#x27;s a self-selecting property that people reinforce, consciously or otherwise.  You can and should make a conscious effort to counter that bias, and leaving aside all the other reasons you might want to do so, you&#x27;ll counter the monoculture that can lead to &quot;let&#x27;s build things people like us want&quot; (which fails if it becomes &quot;and almost nobody else does&quot;).