Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys' Club of Silicon Valley

by Emily Chang

I could tell

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“The rest of the world can go fuck themselves.”

Tough talk but doent live it

Sequoia’s responsibility to hire women,

How are they responsible

To my ears,

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when a former stripper named Amber Laurel Baptiste slapped him with a $40 million lawsuit claiming he kept her as a sex slave for thirteen years.

Stripper. Literally a slave? Shw could not leave?

“We have more empathy in the room,” he asserted. “These people are making really emotional decisions about who they connect with.”

she made news in the venture capital industry by jumping ship from Greylock to Benchmark,

So she abandons the cvompany who gave her the hance

feel so uncomfortable

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By the time he arrived, everyone had left but Wang.

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grill her

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At one point, I agreed to let him embrace me.”

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felt ambushed.

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I felt trapped.

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My focus moving forward is to help eradicate the bro culture and create a positive change for women by elevating consciousness in

Meh

the drug and sex party scene is a minefield to navigate.

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Ava was working as an executive assistant at Google when she ran into her married boss at a bondage club in San Francisco.

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To take one example, we need look no further than Twitter-happy Donald Trump.

To be clear, men do get harassed online, but women experience the more extreme forms, such as rape threats, death threats, and stalking.

Lol. Prove that!

“Twitter I understand you got free speech I get it. But there has to be some guidelines

So, not real free speech

Don’t get me wrong: Facebook isn’t perfect. The social network has a long way to go to combat online hate, both on the main site and on Instagram, which it owns.

You gotta hate hate.

Some users undoubtedly flocked to other, more permissive sites (you can now find “Fat People Hate” and “Coontown” on a newer Reddit alternative called Voat).

Let me be clear: Our shared goal shouldn’t be to remove all bad behavior, hateful comments, or potentially disturbing imagery from the internet. That is not only impossible, it’s undesirable too, because it involves a slippery slope of deciding whose judgment will determine what’s objectionable.

A more reasonable goal would be to create an online social landscape that roughly mirrors that of a healthy city. In most cities, you can, if you desire, find a dive bar, a strip club, or a rough neighborhood where rude or obnoxious behavior is allowed or even encouraged. But in most public spaces—the parks, restaurants, museums, and theaters—you should be fairly confident that neither you nor your children will be verbally assaulted or followed around by some creep shouting threats.

This is laughable

In previous chapters, I’ve asked this question: How different might the world be if women had been included in this transformative industry from the start?

With those results, one might wonder whether firms would do even better with leadership that was all women.

So, now she argues for the exact thing she whined about

our companies

In America they are not “our” companies.

He recalls his old group of buddies

This is not privilege but relationships

Butterfield admits that his Rolodex gives him a huge, and somewhat unfair, advantage.

In 2015, Slack performed a comprehensive compensation “refresh,” and salaries are now routinely monitored by an independent third party. The company is also contributing 1 percent of its equity to support programs to advance women and underrepresented minorities.

Dont want to work there

referring to the ex–Google engineer who said there were fewer women than men in tech and leadership due to biological differences.

Keeps repeating only a small portion of what he said