A diverse team will make your startup more successful
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By Maggie Nye
Published on April 2, 2026.
The founder of Taskrabbit and early-stage investor Leah Solivan discusses the importance of finding the right talent for a diverse team to build a successful startup. She explains that the power of empowering diverse VCs to fund underrepresented founders who will then hire hidden tech talent. Solivan argues that the lack of diversity in venture capital affects who gets funded and who gets hired. She also discusses how to build diverse teams from the very beginning and how to avoid the "easy path" in hiring, which leads to less diverse outcomes. The episode also discusses the connection between diverseVCs and diverse companies.
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