VCs [venture capitalists] hold clear stereo types of successful CEOs (they call it pattern recognition, but in other industries they call it profiling or stereotyping.) John Doerr [a venture capitalist] publicly stated that his most successful investments—and the no-brainer pattern for future investments—were in founders who were white, male, under 30, nerds, with no social life who dropped out of Harvard or Stanford.

Alice E. Marwick, Status Update, loc. 668