There needs to be more deliberate effort on the part of folks at VC firms to bring in a more diverse team of talent. You have to make a more concerted effort to bring in people who are different and who may not be in your network.
I think there are many things that we can do today to make it a better work environment that is more supportive and encouraging of diversity.
There are not many people from top-tier venture capital firms who are focused on the seed stage.
I think it's embarrassing for our industry that we have such low diversity across senior-level management at all of the mainstream, top-tier venture capital firms.
The reality is that in a tech environment that is 90 percent to 100 percent male, it's not super-encouraging for females to be successful. It's just a lot of things that contribute to that: things that people do or things that people say that they may not realize have unintended consequences.
Over the long term, there will be many more billion-dollar technology companies than there are today.
