Balaji Srinivasan
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Podcast Appearances
Okay, fine, fine, fine.
All right, but most people have.
Most people have not, yeah.
Most people have not.
And just to give you a sense of this, right?
He's inherited the New York Times company, which is a company, by the way, from his father's father's father's father.
This is like a fifth generation hereditary dynasty.
And what does he say?
He's like, oh.
You tech guys aren't diverse and meritocratic enough, right?
This is literally an organization where it was, you know, like the three competitors for the NYT throne were like three cousins, okay?
So their version of the Rooney Rule, you know, the Rooney Rule you're supposed to like, you know, back, you're like supposed to interview like diverse people for the top role.
Their version of the Rooney Rule was like interviewing their three cousins for the top role.
Okay.
Okay.
Whereas what do we do?
We interview people from all around the world, right?
We have like the founder of Calendly is Nigerian and, you know, Mercado Libre, Latin American.
And, you know, you know, Kareem is Middle Eastern and we have Indian startups and Japanese startups.
Tech technology is global, right?