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Bootcamps are a micro example of how the tech industry is built on the emotional labor of the same groups who are marginalized within it.

If programs to get youth into tech are adding an extra layer of difficulty for young people, rather than improving their lives, why would they enter and stay?

A behind-the-scenes look at how MVC subscriptions work: how we set pricing, design our marketing, what technology we use, and how to use these tactics for your own media project.

We cover picking a price point, promoting your sponsorships, developing ethical guidelines, and how sponsors help us make MVC.

If we reach our numerical goals only to look in the mirror and see all the corruption that already existed, we will have failed.

Companies have made it crystal clear that they don’t actually care about the diversity they’re supposed to be working on.

Marginalized developers suffer from an industry-wide epidemic that withholds basic income from hard-working artists for the dubious privilege of exposure. But despite popular belief, we are not in dire need of exposure, petty consolations, or a tent on the outskirts of a major industry event.

Diversity in tech is not only about ending technology empires that employ almost all white men, but about ending the ecosystems around tech companies that benefit primarily white males through a constellation of seemingly “secondary” effects in a far vaster net.

This is a post about why and how we developed Fund Club, and what we’ve learned in the process.