The other non-white guy was picked to go first. He had recently moved here from East Asia, and his English was pretty elementary. Nobody seemed to fully understand what his startup did, and he wasn’t fluent enough in the cultural norms to answer the audience’s questions in a way they found satisfactory. Soon the vibe turned cruel, and there was an unrestrained glee in the audience when the pitcher stumbled over words or missed the subtext of a question. Nick was drunk and didn’t seem to notice, but I was even more uncomfortable than when I first clocked the party’s gender ratio,
