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Diversity Is Not an Accident

If you want your work force to reflect the rest of the world (and your customers), change your behavior

BASECAMP IS APPROACHING its 18th year in business, and for most of those years we’ve been mostly male and mostly white. We’re not proud of that.

We weren’t almost entirely male and white because we wanted to be. We simply kept doing what we’d always been doing: hiring people just like us. So we ended up with a lot of white guys.

I have

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