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For black CEOs in Silicon Valley, humiliation is a part of doing business

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677 points saeedjabbar | 2 comments | 16 Jun 20 15:19 UTC | HN request time: 0.02s | source
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0zymandias ◴[16 Jun 20 23:11 UTC] No.23545477[source]▶
It seems like people from other ethnicities/countries have done well in Silicon Valley, e.g. India, China, Iran. Notably, CEOs of Google, Microsoft, Uber and others are brown-skinned.

Would they have done even better without the racism? Or what accounts for the difference?

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1. gowld ◴[17 Jun 20 01:46 UTC] No.23546777[source]▶
Asian immigrants largely pass through a selection filter of wealth and education before they can immigrate (in tech at least, thanks to H1-B), so the ones you see have largely been preselected and show up in a large peer group.

The Chinese or Indian person next to you at work who came to US on an H1B or education visa was much more elite in their home country than you are in yours, on average.

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2. FilterSweep ◴[17 Jun 20 02:52 UTC] No.23547195[source]▶
Anecdotal but this is what I have seen across multiple companies and startups.