"Somewhere along the way, a lot of us got it in our heads that the next Bill Gates was going to look a lot like the last one. And when society expects tech talent to look a certain way, these stereotypes can discourage young women and people of color from pursuing tech in the first place."

-Melinda Gates, co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, writing this week on Quartz.com’s Quartz at Work, on why she believes that, if appropriate steps are taken, “the next Bill Gates won’t look like the last one.”