Last year, several Silicon Valley companies acknowledged, for the first time, just how few women they employed in tech positions (fewer than twenty per cent, in most cases).
Then, last year, a female engineer at Pinterest, Tracy Chou, helped persuade several of Silicon Valley's most prominent companies, including Google and Facebook, to reveal the percentages of women they were employing in tech positions.
If you repeat the exercise at the statewide level, for California and Texas, you get a similar ratio; Texas produces many more overall jobs for a given number of skilled, tech positions.
"Diversity often means women and underrepresented minorities," Aline Lerner, the founder and C.E.O. of Interviewing.io, an anonymous-interview platform for tech positions, told me, as we sat in a conference room at a perky WeWork in downtown San Francisco, where she rents an office.
Yes, I still have large tech positions.
What troubles Hoey is the large number of individual investors that he suspects have taken huge tech positions on margin.
