Is Silicon Valley Insensitive to Homeless People?

According to Francis Pedraza's Twitter profile, the founder of Everest seeks to lead his team "towards our vision of unlocking human potential." It's an interesting goal to consider in light of what Pedraza said last week

As Valleywag's Sam Biddle pointed out, Pedraza praised the founders of Snapchat (a disappearing-text service) for apparently doing some of their beta testing on homeless people. "When I asked [Snapchat founder] Evan for the story of how and why they built the product, he talked about how they would do stuff like build something, showed it to RANDOM people —  like homeless people —  and watched them use it, with no explanation or guidance," he said. "Then they would ask questions, gain some insight and iterate." Read more...