I think your original point was way off base. &quot;Signalling&quot; certainly sounds a lot more loaded than seems reasonable. I&#x27;m not even sure what exactly you&#x27;re trying to say with that, but it certainly doesn&#x27;t seem very charitable.<p>I took the photo to signal the dude really digs Austin (not my fave city; but whatever). I assumed he was black because he took a picture of his arm, with the tattoo that he talked about having. I dunno. I live in a predominately black area and it&#x27;s just not that unusual for me I guess. If you live in SV maybe it&#x27;s worth talking about. In the less affluent parts of Dallas it just isn&#x27;t. Talking about his father being an unfortunate statistic just reinforced it. I guess that didn&#x27;t click the same for most.<p>I&#x27;m just not sure what it has to do with what the VCs were telling him about his business in the rest of the article. There were two articles for me I guess. A short story up front I found pretty compelling. And a frustrated (for lack of a better word) diatribe about financing I found tedious, unfocused, and not all that compelling for the latter half-ish.<p>But if it was a white or asian dude that posted a picture of his wrist with an Austin tattoo, then yeah, I would have been surprised to read later on that the tattoo he described having, and put up a picture of, didn&#x27;t actually belong to him. Not sure if that falls under &quot;signaling&quot; or not.