Comments on post “Founder Catalog”
Dan Edwards
@de · Designer
Lovely work and I love the idea! It would be great to see a bit more diversity. 90% of the people you've included are white dudes.
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Ben Tossell
@bentossell · Community Lead, Product Hunt
@de yeah would love to know the current diversity split and plans for expansion here.
Love the idea here :)
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Ali Mese
@meseali · http://growth.supply
@de thanks for pointing it out, Dan, this is totally spot on and helpful. We asked our audience and let them decide the names but definitely starting to improve the list based on your feedback. super appreciated 👌
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Ali Mese
@meseali · http://growth.supply
thanks @bentossell, happy to hear if any more thoughts or suggestions as well!
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Dan Edwards
@de · Designer
@meseali That's great to hear 😊
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Ali Mese
@meseali · http://growth.supply
@de 🙌
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Kevin William David
@kwdinc · Community @Siftery. No 1 Hunter on PH🥇
@de @bentossell Agree! Would love to see folks like @km @waynesutton @tristanwalker @Everette on the list. @meseali Checkout http://www.techiesproject.com/ , http://peopleofcolorintech.com/ & http://revisionpath.com/ to find more folks!
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Ali Mese
@meseali · http://growth.supply
@kwdinc oh yes! this helps a lot. thanks for the huge support as always, Kevin!
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Nicholas Sheriff
@nicholassheriff · Founder, Quest
@de Thanks so much for pointing that out Dan...because not one black person made this list that looks like me, and they "traveled the whole world" in search of founders and entrepreneurs.
I love the product hunt community!
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Ali Mese
@meseali · http://growth.supply
@nicholassheriff thanks for pointing it out again, Nicholas! We're working on it, also really appreciate the links you dropped below. If there're other specific names you'd like to see on the list, pls drop them as well. thanks!
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Nicholas Sheriff
@nicholassheriff · Founder, Quest
@meseali Pretty sure I'm crying right now at 5am telling my imaginary son...see it's getting better, you guys are amazing!
This is how it starts :D ..upvoted!
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Ryan Hoover
@rrhoover · Founder, Product Hunt
@de you beat me to it. This list completely ignores all the amazing women and POC in startups. See @helena's Techies Project and if you need inspiration for more folks in tech, take a peek at our LIVE Chat guests.
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Adam Marx
@adammarx13 · CEO, Glipple, Inc.
@rrhoover @de @helena Love the concept here, but going to echo the need for more diversity on it. I suggest drawing some inspiration from the great lists that are out there of female, non-white, non-tech, and outside-SV founders. Check out @arlanwashere and what she's doing with her new projects; some great ideas for diversity there. :)
Otherwise, looking forward to seeing this expand to include a whole host of new people!
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Maria Salamanca
@mariasalamancam · Associate, Unshackled Ventures
@rrhoover It's great to see this be something everyone thinks about now, slowly but steady progress in the right direction.
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Evan Kimbrell
@evankimbrell · Founder, Sprintkick
@meseali @de You should add like an affirmative action filter to your poll results
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