My Unexpected Journey to Silicon Valley as a Woman of Color
How I almost didn’t make it and why this story matters
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7 min readFeb 24, 2020
Two young fish swimming in a river encounter an older fish. The older fish greets them, “Morning, boys, isn’t the water great today?” The two young fish continue onward in silence, when suddenly one of them looks at the other and says, “What the hell is water?”