For these CEOs, the problem isn’t just the media and external critics: The wokeness is coming from inside the building. At dinner parties, they ask each other the same question: How do we keep woke activists off the payroll? “It’s the first thing they want to talk about these days,” a vice president at a venture-capital shop told me. “It’s the crazy, activist, political stuff. I’ve not met a founder who doesn’t think it’s a problem. There’s a state of what the f**k?”
"How do we keep woke activists off the payroll?" This is a strange question. Do they mean somebody is trying to force them to put them on the payroll? Who is that and how do they do it?
Meanwhile, although some may be Republicans, I think most of these idiots are committed Democrats.
BTW, I own stock in Snowflake. It's taking the database software world by storm.
No one is trying to force them to do this. It's long since a done deal. The rot is everywhere.
What it means is how can we make sure we are not hiring a Social Justice Warrior. They want someone who is a coding Warrior who stays focused only on writing code.
i.e. how to screen for them in the hiring process. One would think that would pretty simple.