Times are a changing
Diversity split is still sad though, less than 10% female founders
Inc42 has found that over 60% of Indian soonicorn founders do not hail from IITs, and over 77% had a non-IIM background.
https://inc42.com/features/now-non-iit-iim-graduates-at-the-helm-of-indian-unicorns-growth-story/
deadpm
Stealth
5 months ago
Non-IITians who? Oh, BITSians lmao.
Pedigree will always be a determinant of success because it's mostly proportional to effort. You only get lucky so many times in life.
Kamlesh
Stealth
5 months ago
Luck literally determines where you are born and how likely you are to actually reach IIT IIM over time
Parents being educated themselves is a huge factor in the education of kids and access to opportunities.
If pedigree is such an important factor in success, why are placements not happening for IIT IIM grads last few years? Surely there are enough jobs in the market for those who are most likely to succeed by your logic? 😂
deadpm
Stealth
5 months ago
100% concede to the privilege argument. That's not really my point either. That's also not a problem you solve by funding non-IITian startups? Most of your non-IITian founders are still engineers.
My point is folks who think they don't get funding/or some cushy job because they haven't gone to an IIT/IIM always discount how difficult it is to get into a place like that in the first place. Too many examples of privileged people victimizing themselves for the opportunities they don't work for.
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Kamlesh
Stealth
5 months ago
No one's robbing anyone of anything, please
You might like working in offices that are sausage fests, not everyone does.
Please refrain from using sexist terminology like "sausage fest".
And I believe in merit based hiring. If a deserving candidate is not allowed to interview just because he is male, I find that to be injustice.
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Times have changed even when hiring, my org don't give a shit about college tier lol
Kamlesh
Stealth
5 months ago
I reject IIT IIM grads 😈
MutedFlow57
Stealth
5 months ago
Which org is this. Please you gotta reveal
Maybe this is more true for software profiles and not business ones.
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Qwerty2398
Stealth
5 months ago
no body bats a eyelid for starts ups that are yet to be profitable even after 10 yrs of operations. ironically these companies' are still called start ups. even after a decade.
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