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It involves a stringent selection process where founders are generally expected to be working on the product full—time, have a prototype or something to show, and already have some users. there is even a green tech meetup happening here in the midst of the open offices of investors and big tech companies. so for apps that want to find their place on the app store, well, google is over there, apple's over there, so there's help close at hand. and five years in, a1% of the founders based here are female. a very different proportion to that of the wider international tech scene. every single pa...

A very different proportion to that of the wider international tech scene. every single partner programme we have at station f needs to do its best effort to get females in the applicant pool. necessarily selecting people, because they are female, not necessarily selecting people, because they are female, we actually discourage quotas like that at station f, but we believe that once you have more women as candidates, the conversion rate will be higher. dora founded blazer, a parisian start—up using data to analyse early response to cancer treatment. being a founder of a start—up in medtech...

Which is a good sign. outside these walls, though, there are still many challenges. today there are so many resources, so many opportunities, so many discussions. people are really engaged and they want to see a difference. and this was not the case from about ten years ago, where people weren't actually even conscious that there was a gender issue in tech and it wasn't anywhere in the conversation. we have to see maybe more diversity within venture capital teams, we have to see them actually, back in the same way as we have done at station f, really go out and increase the applicant pool and ...

House interns. there are some criticisms pointing to the lack of diversity there. is that a fair criticism or do you think there's more to this story, seema? what are you interpreting from this? >> it's true the intern class is less diverse than classes we saw under president obama. what did the applicant pool look like? if you look at voters, minorities were more likely to support president obama than president trump. did fewer apply? we don't know. >> we had to look at a picture and make assumptions. your thoughts on it, sabrina? if we look -- by the way, we're looking at the obama intern cl...

The population of college age asian applicants has doubled. there is no argument, no reasonable argument against the fact that they have a quote system as they did against jews in the 20's and you are defending that. why? >> tucker, they don't have a quota system, first of all, it is unconstitutional. secondly when i was at harvard the percentage of asian americans was about 16% to 17%. today it's 1%. so it's actually increased by 30%. just since the time that i graduated. so it can't possibly be a quote system unless the quote numbers are changing and then it can't be a quota system. >> unles...