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Their stories came out slowly, even hesitantly, at first. Then in a rush.
One female entrepreneur recounted how she had been propositioned by a Silicon Valley venture capitalist while seeking a job with him, which she did not land after rebuffing him. Another showed the increasingly suggestive messages she had received from a start-up investor. And one chief executive described how she had faced numerous sexist comments from an investor while raising money for her online community website.
What happened afterward was often just as disturbing, the women told The New York Times. Many times, the investor's firms and colleagues ignored or played down what had happened when the situations were brought to their attention. Saying anything, the women were warned, might lead to ostracism.
Now some of these female entrepreneurs have decided to take that risk. More than two dozen women in the technology start-up industry spoke to The Times in recent days about being sexually harassed. Ten of them named the investors involved, often providing corroborating messages and emails, and pointed to high-profile venture capitalists such as Chris Sacca of Lowercase Capital and Dave McClure of 500 Startups, who did not dispute the accounts.
The disclosures came after the tech news site The Information reported that female entrepreneurs had been preyed upon by a venture capitalist, Justin Caldbeck of Binary Capital. The new accounts underscore how sexual harassment in the tech start-up ecosystem goes beyond one firm and is pervasive and ingrained. Now their speaking out suggests a cultural shift in Silicon Valley, where such predatory behavior had often been murmured about but rarely exposed.
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(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Wednesday July 05 2017, @04:54PM (3 children)
FTFY! Are you chicken, AC! Are you a pathetic misogynist tech ubermensch? Do you work out?
No, this is a serious problem, and some here seem to be incapable of perceiving it. It is like when the dog shits on the carpet, you have to rub their nose in it until they get the idea it is not ok. Not trolling at all, my dear mellifluous AC.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 05 2017, @06:03PM (2 children)
So.. We need to smack you with a rolled up news paper and rub your nose in your own waste?
Cause YOU ARE THE ONE WHO CANT GET WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING.
We understand what your saying, but it doesn't make any sense champ.
Calm down, reread the thread and apologize.
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Wednesday July 05 2017, @06:27PM (1 child)
Evidently not! Because I understand what you're saying, but you seem to be an Anonymous misogynist who does not grok contractions.
Tu quoque, amicus meus!
The problem with being in the MRA, Red Pillar, "women are mean to me" camp is that it is just so far away from understanding what it is like to be the other gender that real communication is impossible. Usually it is not until a man has a wife (as a friend and equal) that he even gets some idea, but especially when he has one or more daughters, and suddenly his entire point of view shifts. That is, unless he is an asshole AC with a reading comprehension problem who cannot do contractions.
Yoor Velcomen, AC.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 06 2017, @02:46PM
WTF are contractions? I mean I know of several definitions for that word but your use of it in the post above does not provide the proper context for any of them.