> Guest after guest walked past the pair of executives to greet their White employee, offer their congratulations and ask how he got the idea for the product.
This sort of thing has never, ever happened to me. Nobody has ever suggested that I hire a wingman of a different ethnicity or gender or anything similarly asinine either.
I was a dev lead at my former company. I’m Black. One of the guys I hired was an older white dude. I was taking my team out to lunch - I was the only Black guy. The server came up and asked the table in general was it together or separate. I said it was together and preceded to get my corporate card out of my wallet. No one else reached for their card. She still handed the check to the white guy.