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Startup CEO Says VC Firm Punished Her for Reporting Sex Assault
- muddy_puddles 2y agoFrom profile of VC in question: "Formerly he was CTO of Sausage Software".
- johnnyanmac 2y agoNominative determinism in action. Seems like a weird superstition, but it's surprising how much it can pop up.
- radlad 2y agoConfirmation bias
- johnnyanmac 2y agoFrequency bias is more fitting.
- radlad 2y agoI don't think so. My line of thinking was that you don't consider all the names you hear that belong to someone without a matching job - the ones that stick out are the ones that match. I believe this is confirmation bias.
- spitfire 2y agoMakers of the 1990's HTML editing software HotDog. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sausage_Software https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sausage_Software Edit: And yes, I saw what you did there.
- alephnerd 2y ago[flagged]
- rlt 2y ago[flagged]
- lolinder 2y agoSince you broached the meta first, here's some feedback on the downvotes: 1. "HN hivemind" never goes over well. 2. "Rage-boner" is an ironically sexual metaphor for a comment on this topic. You could legitimately get in trouble for using that kind of language in a company that takes sexual harassment seriously, so it's a bit jarring to see it in your comment given the topic and your expressed opinion on it. 3. As the HN guidelines say, "Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading." Commenting about downvotes will generally get you more downvotes even if the rest of your content is fine.
- alephnerd 2y agoI agree that I broke HN rules, yet I've grown tired of the meta being used sparingly (not the fault of the mod team per say, but more so a reflection of how much HN usership has grown over the past 3-4 years). This connects with a point I've made to Dang multiple times over the years - ban any and all culture war topics like this from HN, they only degrade the platform. Alternatively, HN rules need to be reformed - HN is no longer a niche platform used by a handful of connected techies. I've even shown cases where accounts that Meta's abuse team linked to nation state disinfo campaigns remained active on HN [0] [0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37308530 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37308530
- fuzztester 2y ago>1. "HN hivemind" never goes over well. interesting. why? i have used it a few times in my own hn comments, after having read it on hn multiple times. as an experiment, i did this: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=hn+hivemind https://hn.algolia.com/?q=hn+hivemind and looked at the results. interestingly, the term was also used for positive comment.
- lolinder 2y agohttps://archive.ph/riCEi https://archive.ph/riCEi
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- droopyEyelids 2y agoWhat is absurd about it?
- AnthonyMouse 2y agoWhy would you want to increase the ownership stake in your company of someone who assaulted you?
- alephnerd 2y agoIf an employee of mine committed assault, I'd absolutely wish to know - both to protect my own employees as well as to manage my own insurance liabilities. In addition, most hiring contracts require employees who have been charged to report this to HR.
- brigadier132 2y agoCan anyone explain the mindset of these firms that become very protective of execs that do things like this?
- tptacek 2y agoApparently this firm fired the exec.
- kerkeslager 2y agoSure, but it's not clear whether that happened before or after the civil suit went public.
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- danielmarkbruce 2y agoThey fired him. What protection did they provide?
- brigadier132 2y agoI assumed there was negligence on the side of the firm because of the lawsuit.
- tbrownaw 2y agoWell the article says she's alleging retaliation, which seems like a bit more than just negligence.
- kerkeslager 2y agoDid the do that before or after the civil suit went public?
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- nothrowaways 2y agoBad.
- muddy_puddles 2y agohttps://law.justia.com/cases/california/court-of-appeal/2024/a168113.html https://law.justia.com/cases/california/court-of-appeal/2024... Hardell walked to her hotel room and called a rape hotline. A medical examination revealedthat she had sufferedphysical injuries.
- tbrownaw 2y agoThis bit is also mentioned in the Bloomberg article. Is the court document from a search, or did the article include it and I just missed it?
- tbrownaw 2y agoI see these in the court document linked in the child comment, which looks like it's the same case, but not in the (archive version of the) Bloomberg article.
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- muddy_puddles 2y ago[flagged]
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- muddy_puddles 2y ago[flagged]
- tbrownaw 2y agoThe one paragraph that isn't a gratuitous insult (the one ending "... no way of knowing which is which") would probably be fine on it's own.
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- 2-3-7-43-1807 2y agoLet's add some substance to the discussion: CAILIN HARDELL,Plaintiff and Appellant,v. ADRIAN VANZYL,Defendant and Respondent. [1] "says the middle-aged VC investor and another CEO backed by his firm got her drunk and sexually assaulted her." The second guy's name is Waleed Mohsen and the VC is Blumberg. 1: https://law.justia.com/cases/california/court-of-appeal/2024/a168113.html https://law.justia.com/cases/california/court-of-appeal/2024...
- nojvek 2y agoLess than 2% of VC funding goes to female founders. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2023/12/how-we-can-close-the-venture-capital-gender-gap/ https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2023/12/how-we-can-close-the-... When male VCs engage in behavior like this, it scares future founders.
- JamesBarney 2y ago2% seemed low so I looked it up and that's the amount that goes to exclusively female founding teams. 20% goes to founders with a female cofounder on the team. Just clarification for anyone else who got confused by that.