Coming of professional age as a white male in the 1990s was the greatest economic arbitrage in history. Today’s 54-to-70-year-olds saw the Dow Jones increase an average of 445% from 25–40, their prime working years. For other ages, it doubles at most. That growth meant more opportunities—opportunities that were sequestered to a specific demographic (see above: white males). In 1990s San Francisco, between the age of 34 and 44, I raised over $1 billion for my start-ups and activist campaigns. I didn’t know a single woman, or person of color, under 40 who raised more than $10 million. And it
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