As a hispanic person, I always hate it when people see me as some poker chip that should be used to fulfill some arbitrary quota. We have preferences for where we want to work like everybody else, and our backgrounds&#x2F;cultures definitely have an influence in that. Is it possible that maybe, perhaps these clean-cut trendy startups just aren&#x27;t appealing to us?<p>Personally, I can&#x27;t see myself working at most of these startups, but it has nothing to do with their constituency (I get along great with those &#x27;white and asian&#x27; people!), it&#x27;s just that usually their vision&#x2F;direction or products are simply uninteresting to me, and I definitely prefer working at startups to big companies. For example, I would much rather work at a food-oriented startup, than another boring code&#x2F;SaaS type startup, and I certainly wouldn&#x27;t touch any fashion startups with a 20ft pole, just purely because of <i>what I&#x27;m interested in</i>, having grown up in a latino community. Unfortunately, the types of startups that I am interested in, aren&#x27;t usually the ones that get all the buzz on techcrunch.<p>Either way, having &#x27;equal opportunity&#x27; shouldn&#x27;t force those of us with different cultural preferences to meet some arbitrary ideals for &#x27;equal outcomes&#x27;.