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I know this is just one side of the story ... but if these facts are even remotely true, Kleiner is really a terrible place for women. This married dude just h

I know this is just one side of the story ... but if these facts are even remotely true, Kleiner is really a terrible place for women. This married dude just harassing co-workers left and right. How gross. Not inviting women partners to events. WTF? Who are these guys? Is this 2015? This guys webpage is almost a bigger crime than his alleged sexual misbehavior: http://www.ajitnazre.com/ http://www.ajitnazre.com/

exstudent2 12y ago
It is creepy but it IS just one side of the story. It seems premature to condem then until hearing all the info.
- trose 12y ago
  Well Lane did confirm his silly anecdote about his ex wife. That was a very inappropriate response to an employee reaching out to him about sexual harassment. He should have hired an HR consultant immediately. Additionally Nazre has a history of sexually harassing female coworkers so at this point it's looking pretty cut and dry.
mullen 12y ago
> This married dude just harassing co-workers left and right. How gross. I am little surprised that a VC is not firing people for doing this. Just strikes me as a huge liability and a great way to drive talent out of the shop.
- quaunaut 12y ago
  Apparently he was fired, but not for his conduct with Pao, but for sexually harassing another female partner.
  - cbsmith 12y ago
    The ol' "once is an accident, twice is a pattern" principle.
  - RockyMcNuts 12y ago
    As I follow it on my scorecard, he got promoted to senior partner after this, and after the issue with the other partner. Then, when the lawsuit was filed and he was going to come under public scrutiny for a pattern of problems, he got fired.
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foobarqux 12y ago
The irony is that Kleiner is one of the progressive firms. Sequoia doesn't even have female general partners.
- colmvp 12y ago
  They have an Asian partner in Alfred Lin and Middle Eastern partner in Omar Hamoui. Both are racial minorities. That has to count for something in the realm of diversity as racial and ethnic minorities face discrimination and under-representation in many executive committees.
  - dredmorbius 12y ago
    Neither of those are cultures noted for their sensitivity to women.
- ripb 12y ago
  Fuck this site
  - jmduke 12y ago
    It's somewhat alarming that this comment wouldn't be out of place fifty years ago.
    - ripb 12y ago
      Fuck this site
      - enraged_camel 12y ago
        Not every point deserves a response, especially not those that refer to women as "vaginas."
  - colmvp 12y ago
    Agreed. It's strange. It doesn't take into account merit of the selections nor the additional way of measuring progressiveness in racial diversity which, as I outline in another post, it has at least some. It's just blindly assumes the worst based on one metric.
dsjoerg 12y ago
that webpage looks autogenerated
marcusgarvey 12y ago
This cannot seriously be this Nazre's own website -- can it?!
wozniacki 12y ago
Why didn't anyone link to this LNKD profile? https://www.linkedin.com/pub/aniruddha-%22ajit%22-nazre/1/230/439 https://www.linkedin.com/pub/aniruddha-%22ajit%22-nazre/1/23... or this http://www.wellington-partners.com/wp/ajit_nazre.html http://www.wellington-partners.com/wp/ajit_nazre.html Same person right? This married dude just harassing co-workers left and right. How gross. The way you phrase your argument seems to paint your intentions, less than objective. Workplace affairs aside, what is the indubitable proof to suggest that these things transpired owing to malice, on his part? Has he testified, yet? This reminds me of the Michael Arrington case [1], of people rushing to judgments. [1] http://uncrunched.com/2013/04/11/jennifer-allen-false-defamatory/ http://uncrunched.com/2013/04/11/jennifer-allen-false-defama... http://uncrunched.com/2014/06/24/fifteen-months-later/ http://uncrunched.com/2014/06/24/fifteen-months-later/
AVTizzle 12y ago
I stumbled across his personal website too. My take on it is that he's trying to spin up some SEO to win back his name on Google. Rough.
- ianmcgowan 12y ago
  It's a little too "malkovich malkovich malkovich malkovich malkovich"
jheriko 12y ago
> This married dude just harassing co-workers left and right. How gross. then dating the guy after he claims his marriage fell apart.... how dumb is that? i'm not going to defend his behaviour or any of the other clearly bullshit sexism here, but in the case of this guy misbehaving it is in a very large part enabled by women in a combination of not standing up for themselves and sleeping with a jerk. you can't just ask everyone around you to stop this stuff if you are actively encouraging it yourself. it has to work both ways. if he had no success he would learn from the constant rejection. a big problem is that for men, acceptance is so rare that one instance of sex is enough to validate the entire path that lead to it. so they will continue the same behaviour if it leads to any success whatsoever...
- jheriko 12y ago
  so i clearly missed the mark here. does anyone care to educate me or just down vote without comment? (i'm being serious. i can't learn without feedback, and clearly i am wrong, i just have no idea why)
  - smtddr 12y ago
    Your downvotes are probably because of the blaming-the-victim section: >>in the case of this guy misbehaving it is in a very large part enabled by women in a combination of not standing up for themselves and sleeping with a jerk. you can't just ask everyone around you to stop this stuff if you are actively encouraging it yourself. it has to work both ways.
  - maged 12y ago
    Nazre isn't being criticized for his consensual relationship with Pao. Its for his reaction to her ending it, as well as non consensual harrassment of other employees.
    - hudibras 12y ago
      Well, he's also being criticized for lying about his marriage being over so that Pao would sleep with him.
puranjay 12y ago
CTRL + F "Ajit Nazre" shows 42 results on his website. This dude really likes his name.
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exstudent2 12y ago

It is creepy but it IS just one side of the story. It seems premature to condem then until hearing all the info.

trose 12y ago
Well Lane did confirm his silly anecdote about his ex wife. That was a very inappropriate response to an employee reaching out to him about sexual harassment. He should have hired an HR consultant immediately. Additionally Nazre has a history of sexually harassing female coworkers so at this point it's looking pretty cut and dry.

mullen 12y ago

> This married dude just harassing co-workers left and right. How gross. I am little surprised that a VC is not firing people for doing this. Just strikes me as a huge liability and a great way to drive talent out of the shop.

quaunaut 12y ago
Apparently he was fired, but not for his conduct with Pao, but for sexually harassing another female partner.
- cbsmith 12y ago
  The ol' "once is an accident, twice is a pattern" principle.
- RockyMcNuts 12y ago
  As I follow it on my scorecard, he got promoted to senior partner after this, and after the issue with the other partner. Then, when the lawsuit was filed and he was going to come under public scrutiny for a pattern of problems, he got fired.

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foobarqux 12y ago

The irony is that Kleiner is one of the progressive firms. Sequoia doesn't even have female general partners.

colmvp 12y ago
They have an Asian partner in Alfred Lin and Middle Eastern partner in Omar Hamoui. Both are racial minorities. That has to count for something in the realm of diversity as racial and ethnic minorities face discrimination and under-representation in many executive committees.
- dredmorbius 12y ago
  Neither of those are cultures noted for their sensitivity to women.
ripb 12y ago
Fuck this site
- jmduke 12y ago
  It's somewhat alarming that this comment wouldn't be out of place fifty years ago.
  - ripb 12y ago
    Fuck this site
    - enraged_camel 12y ago
      Not every point deserves a response, especially not those that refer to women as "vaginas."
- colmvp 12y ago
  Agreed. It's strange. It doesn't take into account merit of the selections nor the additional way of measuring progressiveness in racial diversity which, as I outline in another post, it has at least some. It's just blindly assumes the worst based on one metric.

dsjoerg 12y ago

that webpage looks autogenerated

marcusgarvey 12y ago

This cannot seriously be this Nazre's own website -- can it?!

wozniacki 12y ago

Why didn't anyone link to this LNKD profile? https://www.linkedin.com/pub/aniruddha-%22ajit%22-nazre/1/230/439 https://www.linkedin.com/pub/aniruddha-%22ajit%22-nazre/1/23... or this http://www.wellington-partners.com/wp/ajit_nazre.html http://www.wellington-partners.com/wp/ajit_nazre.html Same person right? This married dude just harassing co-workers left and right. How gross. The way you phrase your argument seems to paint your intentions, less than objective. Workplace affairs aside, what is the indubitable proof to suggest that these things transpired owing to malice, on his part? Has he testified, yet? This reminds me of the Michael Arrington case [1], of people rushing to judgments. [1] http://uncrunched.com/2013/04/11/jennifer-allen-false-defamatory/ http://uncrunched.com/2013/04/11/jennifer-allen-false-defama... http://uncrunched.com/2014/06/24/fifteen-months-later/ http://uncrunched.com/2014/06/24/fifteen-months-later/

AVTizzle 12y ago

I stumbled across his personal website too. My take on it is that he's trying to spin up some SEO to win back his name on Google. Rough.

ianmcgowan 12y ago
It's a little too "malkovich malkovich malkovich malkovich malkovich"

jheriko 12y ago

> This married dude just harassing co-workers left and right. How gross. then dating the guy after he claims his marriage fell apart.... how dumb is that? i'm not going to defend his behaviour or any of the other clearly bullshit sexism here, but in the case of this guy misbehaving it is in a very large part enabled by women in a combination of not standing up for themselves and sleeping with a jerk. you can't just ask everyone around you to stop this stuff if you are actively encouraging it yourself. it has to work both ways. if he had no success he would learn from the constant rejection. a big problem is that for men, acceptance is so rare that one instance of sex is enough to validate the entire path that lead to it. so they will continue the same behaviour if it leads to any success whatsoever...

jheriko 12y ago
so i clearly missed the mark here. does anyone care to educate me or just down vote without comment? (i'm being serious. i can't learn without feedback, and clearly i am wrong, i just have no idea why)
- smtddr 12y ago
  Your downvotes are probably because of the blaming-the-victim section: >>in the case of this guy misbehaving it is in a very large part enabled by women in a combination of not standing up for themselves and sleeping with a jerk. you can't just ask everyone around you to stop this stuff if you are actively encouraging it yourself. it has to work both ways.
- maged 12y ago
  Nazre isn't being criticized for his consensual relationship with Pao. Its for his reaction to her ending it, as well as non consensual harrassment of other employees.
  - hudibras 12y ago
    Well, he's also being criticized for lying about his marriage being over so that Pao would sleep with him.

puranjay 12y ago

CTRL + F "Ajit Nazre" shows 42 results on his website. This dude really likes his name.

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