At Dinner, My Family Said They Were Done With Me—Then A Woman In A Navy Blazer Entered Looking Only For Me

out. People like me.

Jasmine, our lead developer, had been rejected by five major tech companies because she didn’t have a degree from a prestigious school, despite being one of the most talented coders I’d ever met.

Marcus, our UX designer, had aged out of foster care at eighteen and worked his way through community college while living in his car.

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