>"we shared the stats on founders born outside the US. it's not a perfect map to race, but it's not a bad one either."
It's pretty well established that there are lots of people who were born outside the US in tech in general [1] and among founders specifically [2].
Simply noting the same isn't necessarily saying anything.
>"there are people of all colors in this YC batch."
That's great.
Seeing numbers broken out by ethnicity would be a lot more interesting as it would facilitate a more direct comparison to the rest of the recent releases on diversity.
It's pretty well established that there are lots of people who were born outside the US in tech in general [1] and among founders specifically [2].
Simply noting the same isn't necessarily saying anything.
>"there are people of all colors in this YC batch."
That's great.
Seeing numbers broken out by ethnicity would be a lot more interesting as it would facilitate a more direct comparison to the rest of the recent releases on diversity.
1: http://www.technologyreview.com/news/516546/silicon-valley-f...
2: http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/01/immigration-and...