A Quote by David Livermore

The more diverse your team, the better you'll be at identifying what a diversity of users perceive as problems.

David Livermore

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David Livermore
English - Soccer player
Born: May 20, 1980

The most important part of aligning various expectations is to clearly describe the problem you are trying to solve and identify at least three different ways diverse users experience this problem. The more diverse your team, the better you'll be at doing this.

David Livermore

Smaller companies are often more homogenous. Don't simply increase your diversity because of the social pressure to do so. Instead, realize that hiring a more diverse team will give you a whole new repertoires of innovative ideas. And then develop a strategy for effectively using the diversity of your team.

David Livermore

It matters that there's diversity on the court. I think it makes for better lawmaking, because you have people with more diverse range of judgment and who are going to make a better decision on the law.

Rachel Maddow

It's hard because you can't legislate creative diversity. I think it's more that the gaming community's more diverse, and they're going to ask for more diverse experiences. They're going to demand them.

Aisha Tyler

The notion that diversity in an early team is important or good is completely wrong. You should try to make the early team as non-diverse as possible.

Max Levchin

The better you work to find the pain point and problem facing a diversity of users, the more clearly you can DEFINE the goal when you implement the process for culturally intelligent innovation.

David Livermore

We agree that there is a problem in the sketch and improv community where, in general, there should be more interest from a more diverse sampling of our society. That is precisely why we do have diversity scholarships and why we've put together a diversity program to try to figure this problem out.

Matt Besser

It's better to have a few users love your product than for a lot of users to sort of like it.

Sam Altman

In the early IBM team, that was a racially diverse team, a gender-diverse team.

Megan Smith

We found we were able to create better, customer-centric product features more quickly with a more diverse product team.

Gillian Tans

When overpowering authority or leadership intervenes in a team, it can affect the team by (1) throwing the team off track, (2) decreasing the motivation of the team, (3) reducing the commitment of the team members, and (4) causing more problems than solutions.

J. Richard Hackman

I knew there were calls for diversity in children's lit, but you always wonder as a person of color, how diverse is too diverse?

Angie Thomas

Startups are often best at solving the personal problems of their founders. The more diverse the founders, the more types of problems can be solved - and the more people who will be positively impacted by technology.