Nonwhite, nonmale entrepreneurs have little access to Silicon Valley’s venture-capital funding. : Silicon Valley built its prowess asking the question, “What great company has not been created?” They then build it and do it again — and again. The question suspiciously absent today in Silicon Valley is, “What great entrepreneur has not been funded?” Recent controversy over Uber’s corporate culture and, earlier, Ellen Pao’s unsuccessful discrimination lawsuit against powerful venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, her former employer, are among the events spotlighting the problem of monoculture and homogeneity in the venture community.