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The End of the University Meritocracy

The End of the University

Since coming down south to be closer to family, I’ve taken many walks around the University of North Carolina’s Greensboro campus, where my father works as a professor of chemistry. I arrived not long before spring classes were moved online and the vast majority of students decamped for home. The…
bubmag
September 8, 2020
Partners at Sequoia, GGV, General Catalyst and Greylock join Valence’s VC initiative for Black founders Meritocracy

Partners at Sequoia, GGV, General Catalyst and Greylock join Valence’s VC initiative for Black founders

The new, Los Angeles-based online professional network for Black talent, Valence, has launched a new initiative called the Valence Funding Network to link Black entrepreneurs with top partners at firms including Accel, Sequoia, GGV, First Round Capital, Bessemer Ventures, Greylock, Upfront Ventures and Collab Capital. “For years, Black entrepreneurs have…
bubmag
June 25, 2020
Don’t believe the polls: Trump’s populist presidency may carry him to victory in 2020 Meritocracy

Don’t believe the polls: Trump’s populist presidency may carry him to victory in 2020

Current polling shows President Trump seriously trailing former Vice President Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential race — but current polls are not an accurate gauge for predicting the November election outcome.After all, if all the polling data up to the day of the 2016 election was correct, Hillary ClintonHillary…
bubmag
June 21, 2020