I think if she had disciplined the VC she'd have her money right now. Or at least this wouldn't be in the way. One fundamental responsibility of leadership is

I think if she had disciplined the VC she'd have her money right now. Or at least this wouldn't be in the way. One fundamental responsibility of leadership is disciplining misbehavior. In this case the VC provided a ridiculous over the top sexist commentary somewhere between illegal and merely unethical, and instead of standing up for what is right and/or threatening discipline as best she can, she blogs about a private conversation. Not good at all. Is that how all ethical problems or discipline problems will be handled? VCs may as well pile up their money and burn it to save time. The other side also earns a demerit. Come on, you stress test a female applicant by going for the girl angle, could you possibly be a little less creative? Previous people have probably noticed the whole "girl" thing, her being a female and all that. You could at least try, look into her childhood or education or management style or past employment or almost anything else to stress her would have been more creative. Still if a dud torpedo blows her out of the water, it wasn't really a dud, was it? And an IM conversation isn't as under pressure as face to face, none the less I'd give her some credit for not doing as well as carefully reasoned "monday morning quarterbacking".