Recode Decode: How tech can fix its diversity problem: The Code 2018 panel

Decoder with Nilay Patel

Vox Media Podcast Network

Business, Technology

4.2 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2018

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Recode’s Kara Swisher talks with three tech leaders about actual solutions for advancing diversity in the industry. Cowboy Ventures partner Aileen Lee, theBoardlist founder Sukhinder Singh Cassidy and former U.S. Chief Technology Officer Megan Smith talk about the factors that have historically held back women, people of color and other under-represented groups in tech, and what comes next after the reckoning of the #MeToo movement. The group debates how men can best help their female peers succeed and how companies can avoid falling into the trap of thinking that the solution is just to keep men and women apart. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:39.9	Hi I'm Cara Swisher, Editor at Large of Recode.
0:42.4	You're listening to Recode Decode from the Vox Media Podcast Network.
0:46.6	Today we're going to play an interview from the 2018 Code Conference which I co-produced
0:51.0	with Recode's Executive Editor, Peter Kafka.
0:54.2	This is a panel discussion about diversity that I led at this year's Code Conference.
0:58.1	I talk with Cowboy Ventures founder, Aileen Lee, boardless founder, Sukinder Singh Cassidy
1:02.8	and Megan Smith, the former chief technology officer of the United States.
1:07.2	Let's take a listen.
1:09.5	Alright so we're going to talk about an issue obviously that's really important to me
1:12.8	and to recode and to all of us it should be.
1:16.3	Which is not just me too, but diversity, women, people of color, all being having a more
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