Our DEI program was great. It helped us scale from 100 people to 1000 people by scouring HBCU colleges across the US for talent. Had we hired only from Silicon Valley and Stanford, where we were located, things would have sucked during that growth and our previously global hodgepodge of a team that built products bringing in hundreds of millions of dollars would have been White-washed by rich kids, atrophied and died. Instead, we we went on to billions of dollars because we had a group that weren't all fucking Stanford grads with a couple years of Google or Facebook under their belts and mommy and daddy to fall back on.
