Just figured I should take this opportunity to say, I'm black (and female!) and an entrepreneur. Right now my cofounder (also black) and I are building 20 software products in 20 weeks. You can read about it at http://www.munocreative.com/blog. #shamelessplug
We previously wouldn't have applied to Y combinator because of remarks like these:
"I can be tricked by anyone who looks like Mark Zuckerberg. There was a guy once who we funded who was terrible. I said: ‘How could he be bad? He looks like Zuckerberg!’”
We previously wouldn't have applied to Y combinator because of remarks like these:
"I can be tricked by anyone who looks like Mark Zuckerberg. There was a guy once who we funded who was terrible. I said: ‘How could he be bad? He looks like Zuckerberg!’”
--Paul Graham, New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/05/magazine/y-combinator-sili...)
Seeing as not even a Stanford degree and overpriced American Apparel hoodie can make us look like Mark Zuckerberg.
...but hey---this move by Sam actually seems like a good sign!