A bit about my story, 50 years ago, my parents immigrated from Vietnam to France, and 5 years ago, I immigrated from France to America. A couple of folks have been helping me, Jason M. Lemkin, Michael Seibel, and others who trusted me despite my accent, origins, lack of experience, or race. I felt welcome and they helped to launch my career in the US. I won't ever forget this. I understand that not everyone has had this experience and despite this week DACA win, there is work to be done and for underrepresented/underestimated communities in the US.<p>Today, Plato is launching this program to offer mentorship for 2,000 people of color and people from underrepresented communities in tech for free.<p>Some confirmed mentors:
Michael Seibel (CEO @ YCombinator)
, Cathy Polinsky (CTO @ Stitch Fix)
, Prashanth Chandrasekar (CEO @ Stackoverflow)
, Papanii Nene Okay (Director of Architecture @ Venmo)
, Rukmini Reddy (ex VPE @ Abstract)
, Donal Sumbry (Head of reliability Engineering @ Airbnb)
, Erica Locheimer (VP Eng @ Linkedin Learning)
, Jason Lemkin (CEO @ SaaSTR)
, Elias Torres (Cofounder/CTO @ Drift)
, Sara Garner (Sr Software Engineer @ Stripe)
, Nick Caldwell (CPO @ Looker)
, Jason Shah(Director of Product @ Airbnb)
, Nicolas Dessaigne (CEO @ Algolia)
, Shivani Sharma (Sr EM @ Slack)
, Richard Sun (Sr EM @ Facebook)
, Tido Carriero (CPO @ Segment)
, Will Larson (CTO @ Calm)
, Eddie Kim (CTO / Cofounder @ Gusto)
, Cosmin Nicolaescu (CTO @ Brex)
, Pooja Brown (VPE @ Stich Fix)
, Nidhi Gupta (ex CPO @ Hired)
, Michael Pryor (CEO / Founder @ Trello)
, Juan B (fmr GM / SVP Prod/Eng @ Braintree)
, Daniel Saks (CEO @ AppDirect)
, Luc Vincent (EVP Autonomous Driving @ Lyft)
, Asanka Jayasuriya (CTO and SVP Eng @ Sailpoint, former SVP Eng @ InVision)
, and 100 more...<p>In solidarity and hopefulness for change, thanks!