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You are 40 years old and run a startup valued well into the billions. You are probably far beyond the growing up stage. This is who you are Travis. For context
by pwthornton 10y ago
You are 40 years old and run a startup valued well into the billions. You are probably far beyond the growing up stage. This is who you are Travis.
For context, many people said Steve Jobs needed to grow up during his first stint at Apple (and no one ever accused him of running a company that has major issues with sexual harassment). Jobs was 29 when the Mac came out, and this was after the big success with the Apple II. By the time Steve Jobs came back to Apple in the 1990s and performed an amazing turnaround of Apple, he was in his early 40s.
- pm90 10y agoLike you mentioned there are fundamental differences b/w a CEO who creates a culture where sexual harassment is OK to where a CEO will bully employees occasionally, steal their ideas as their own and park in the handicapped parking lot. I mean, both sound terrible, but the first one is definitely on a different level of nastiness.
- pwthornton 10y agoOne of the key differences is that Jobs may have personally been hard to work with at times and done childish things, but the companies that he ran (Apple and Pixar) were very professionally run and progressive companies. Uber's culture is fomenting harassment throughout the entire organization. Uber is now big enough that most employees will never meet executives, so they won't be personally harassed by them, but if middle managers feel empowered to harass employees, that's a huge issue.
- smileysteve 10y agoFYI "Are you a virgin? You look like a virgin." during an interview may have been sexual harassment.
- pwthornton 10y agoWell, it's only sexual harassment if its true and not just some line from a Hollywood movie: http://www.idownloadblog.com/2012/04/17/ken-segall-steve-jobs-virgin/ http://www.idownloadblog.com/2012/04/17/ken-segall-steve-job...