7/4/2023 0 Comments Black Magic by Chad Sanders![]() She won’t wait for them to change anymore, she says. ![]() She explained that at some point her approach to dealing with a tech industry largely run by white and Asian men hardened. I admire LaTeesha’s unsparing point of view on her industry. ![]() And she learned how to master systems at a small, predominantly white college where she had to design her own experience to thrive. In that way, her journey reminded me of Jewel’s, but Lateesha’s magic is all her own: in our conversation, she pointed to her ability to learn and master systems as the characteristic that allows her to beat the odds as an entrepreneur. LaTeesha has beaten the odds, all the while being labeled “aggressive” and “unpleasant” by micro-aggressing colleagues. Less than 15 percent of venture capital funding in the US goes to women, and less than 1 percent goes to African-American and Latinx founders. LaTeesha is one of very few Black women to have raised venture capital millions to run her tech startup. She was a colleague who became a true friend. Before that she was director of business development at Dev Bootcamp, which was sold to Kaplan during her time there. ![]() Formerly she managed partnerships for Google’s Women Techmakers initiative. LaTeesha is also a technologist, conference organizer, speaker, and advocate for diversity and inclusion in tech. LaTeesha Thomas is the CEO and cofounder of Onramp, an Oakland-based tech startup that aims to solve the technical workforce hiring crisis by helping tech giants like Google and Pandora train and hire technical talent from diverse backgrounds. ![]()
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