What the ’47 Cleveland Indians can teach today’s VCs about inclusion

GUEST: Last month, LinkedIn released the results of a survey of its members, gathering the opinions of more than 600 startup investors and founders on the current state of diversity in the venture capital industry.
The results — though unsurprising to many of us — were quite sobering.
In an industry where 98 percent of senior investors are either White or Asian, and African American male founders receive just two percent of all venture capital deployed, less than five percent of thos