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Now Ben Horowitz has to step down from a16z out of respect to Taylor.
by pl0x 6y ago
Now Ben Horowitz has to step down from a16z out of respect to Taylor.
- dundarious 6y agoI read about the history of this incident, all for the first time today, through someone linking me to the Twitter back-and-forth between @TaylorLorenz and @bhorowitz. https://twitter.com/TaylorLorenz/status/1278506515679322112?s=20 https://twitter.com/TaylorLorenz/status/1278506515679322112?... Reading the original expose, https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/5/20995453/away-luggage-ceo-steph-korey-toxic-work-environment-travel-inclusion https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/5/20995453/away-luggage-ceo... ; Korey's message in stepping down, https://twitter.com/sallyshin/status/1203007359762649088 https://twitter.com/sallyshin/status/1203007359762649088 ; the NYT piece about her return (just a name change, folks, she was never really stepping down at all!), https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/13/business/steph-korey-away.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/13/business/steph-korey-away... ; to this second "stepping down" announcement. In my opinion, Korey's behavior in the original expose was unacceptable, never mind toxic for the brand, so I find Ben's behavior immature. He's crying wolf with his claim that this is cancel culture and just a Twitter war.