Mad at Elon? You Should Be Fucking Furious at the Entire System of Venture Capital and Private Equity That Created Him—And Countless Others Just Like Him.

⚠️ Content Warning: If you're triggered by Black women expressing honest opinions and harsh truths about systemic inequality, stop reading now. This isn't for you.

You know how when you're angry, you're supposed to walk away from an email, take a deep breath, and then come back to it? Yeah. I've had to walk away from this post at least three or four times.

Didn't work. ❌

Still. Fucking. Furious. 🤬

I've had enough of watching our world spiral into chaos while we pretend this is all just a coincidence. The truth is far more sinister: a small, homogeneous group of investors has been systematically concentrating power by funding people who look, think, and act just like them. The result? A world where critical decisions about our future are made by people who've never had to think about anyone but themselves.

And you know who I find particularly fascinating in all this? All you people who screamed about how diversity, equity, and inclusion were "divisive." Who claimed that talking about race was the real problem. Who fought against every attempt to diversify leadership and decision-making power.

Congratulations! Your principles got you exactly what you deserved: A billionaire robbing the U.S. government in broad daylight.

How's that "meritocracy" working out for you now?

Well, thanks. Now STI testing and IUDs are part of the woke agenda.

(Be careful what you vote for—syphilis rates are on the rise, y’all.)

Let's Talk Numbers—Because They Should Make Your Blood Boil.

In 2021, female entrepreneurs received a pathetic 2% of total venture capital funding—the lowest share since 2016. Black and Hispanic founders? Just 2.4% of total U.S. venture capital over five years. Want to really feel the absurdity? There are more White men named Richard, Rick, or Dick on corporate boards than there are Hispanic, Middle Eastern, and Native American women combined.

Let that sink in.

A single white man's name outnumbers entire demographics of women.

📈 Meanwhile, White and Asian men combined receive over 90% of all venture capital funding.

You don’t need to be a math genius to figure this out:

💰 Funding is a requirement to build the next billion-dollar company.

💰 White and Asian men get almost all of it.

💰 And then we act surprised when they’re the only ones who “succeed.”

And yet, we’re supposed to believe that this system is fair? That the people at the top are the most qualified?

This isn't just about representation—it's about survival. When you have homogeneous thinking controlling complex systems, you create massive blind spots that threaten everyone. These aren't just little oversights; they're gaping holes in understanding that can swallow whole communities.

The Adam Neumann Effect: Proof That "Merit" Is a Lie

Take Adam Neumann, the perfect example of this system's grotesque priorities.

After running WeWork into the ground, watching its value plummet from $47 billion to $5 billion, what happened?

Andreessen Horowitz handed him $350 million for his next venture.

Before it even launched.

Meanwhile, brilliant entrepreneurs from diverse backgrounds can't get a fraction of that funding, despite proven track records of success.

And we're supposed to believe this is about "merit"?

Let's be real—they're terrified of actual competition. Because here's what they've seen time and time again:

When you give minorities and women even the smallest fraction of resources, they don't just succeed—they excel. They innovate. They build sustainable businesses that lift up entire communities.

And that scares the hell out of those who uphold the status quo.

The "Merit" Argument Is a Lie—And Here's Why

🔔 Well first, we have eyes and ears and are witnessing this cluster, firsthand.

🔔 Beyond that, the truth is you can only claim these people are the "most qualified" if you've actually tried to give opportunities to others—and they've failed.

🔔 And I'm not talking about one or two people, because that's stupid.

🔔 If I cherry-picked just one or two white men (take, for example, the Trump Administration) and used them to represent the entire demographic, I could just as easily conclude that white men are nothing but criminals, sexual predators, science deniers, and idiots with catastrophic judgment.

🔔 And yet—somehow—we're expected to believe that one or two failures among underrepresented founders means none deserve investment, while white men collect endless second chances.

🔔 I've seen female founders sustain entire small economies on shoestring budgets while mediocre men collect endless blank checks for their next vanity project.

Let's be crystal clear:

• You can only call these people "most qualified" if you've deliberately chosen not to look anywhere else.

• If you've decided your comfortable bubble is the entire world.

• If you've never once actually invested in talent from different backgrounds, different experiences, different perspectives.

• That's not oversight—that's willful blindness.

⚖️ The Homogeneity of Decision-Makers

A critical factor contributing to these disparities is the lack of diversity among those who control venture capital funds:

Demographic Imbalance: White men represent about 30% of the U.S. population but account for 58% of VC investors and manage 93% of all VC funds.

This concentration of decision-making power within a homogeneous group leads to “pattern-matching”—a tendency to fund entrepreneurs who mirror the investors’ own demographics and backgrounds.

Do we really need the 20,001st AI startup that’s just slightly better at summarizing meeting notes?

This isn’t just a representation issue. Who controls the money controls the future?

When the same people control which ideas get funded, we don’t just get bias—we get entire industries shaped around the narrow life experiences of a tiny fraction of the population.

This is why we have more meal kit delivery startups than solutions for maternal mortality.

It’s why the 1001st fintech bro can get a $100M Series B, but Black women-led healthcare companies are left scrambling for seed funding.

Diverse founders are bringing innovative solutions to real, unmet needs—things that aren’t just “nice to have,” but problems screaming for a solution.

And yet, they remain overlooked—not because their ideas lack merit, but because they don’t fit the pre-approved template of what a “successful” founder looks like.

When the same group holds all the power, the cycle keeps repeating itself.

This isn’t meritocracy—this is generational gatekeeping.

👥 The Business Case for Diversity

Let’s get something straight: investing in diverse teams isn’t just a moral imperative—it’s financially smart.

📈 Higher Returns: Teams diverse in gender and ethnicity generate 30% higher multiples on invested capital compared to homogeneous teams.

📈 Increased Business Value: Companies with at least one female or ethnically diverse founder generate over 60% more in business value.

But sure, tell me again how hiring more diverse founders is “lowering the bar.”

Maybe if there had been a Palestinian American in Trump’s administration, they might have mentioned that proposing to take over Gaza was probably not a good idea.

We Are Done Asking Nicely.

We are way past the point of "raising awareness." The system needs to be forced to change.

So, What Do We Do?

🔥 Redistribute capital.

🔥 Hold investors accountable for who gets funded—and who doesn’t.

🔥 Break up concentrated power that allows a small group of investors to shape our entire future.

This isn't just about diversity—it's about the fundamental danger of allowing a small, homogeneous group, trained their entire lives to be selfish and cruel, to accumulate unprecedented power over our collective future.

Their “qualification” is nothing more than the compounded interest on generational privilege.

They were handed access. Handed opportunities.

Handed second, third, and fourth chances—while everyone else has to prove themselves ten times over just to be seen.

Imagine What the World Would Look Like If We Had Funded Diverse Voices From the Beginning

Think about a world where we hadn't concentrated nearly all of the planet's resources in the hands of people who've never had to think about anyone but themselves.

Well for starters, the likelihood of someone doing a bank heist on the federal treasury goes down substantially.

This isn't a failure of imagination.

It's a deliberate choice.

And it's time for a reckoning.

The stakes are too high for us to keep pretending this system makes sense.

We're all living in their blind spots, and those blind spots are getting bigger and more dangerous every day.

⁉️ The Real Question

The real question isn't whether this system is broken—it's working exactly as designed. The question is:

What are we going to do to tear it down and build something better❓

It's time to get angry. It's time to get organized. And it's time to demand change that goes beyond superficial diversity initiatives to address the root cause:

The concentrated power that keeps perpetuating this cycle.

🚫(Trust me—we hate performative DEI just as much as you do.)

Because right now, we're not just watching history repeat itself—we're watching it accelerate.

💭 Final Thoughts

This isn’t about giving people a shot out of charity—it’s about fixing a system that rewards incompetence at the expense of actual innovation.

The people with the best ideas, the ones solving real problems, are not getting funded. And if that doesn’t enrage you, you’re not paying attention.

🎯 You Know What?

I feel strangely better.

Maybe Trump was right about one thing—we should all start saying exactly what we think more often.

Though, I doubt this is what he had in mind.