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Sexual harassment in Silicon Valley: have we reached a tipping point?
- mpweiher 9y agoPrimarily about sexual harassment coming from the VC community, and to a lesser extent the types of startups they fund, not SV in general. I think the whole get-rich-quick and damn-the-rules mentality pretty much guarantees that you will have this type of behavior. For example, you work for Uber, whose basic business model is trying to get away with law-breaking, and you are surprised that they're not the most ethical bunch? An important point is that this is really a more general problem with the completely unchecked power of VCs, with the gender issues just fallout. To me, the solution is to reign in that power, for example by relying less on VC money and more on organic growth.