From her side, David Bonderman piped up. Until that moment, he and Gurley had been quiet, letting Huffington present her section of the report. But a thought popped into his head. “I’ll tell you what it shows,” Bonderman said. “It’s that it’s much likelier to be more talking on the board.” The room froze. Had one of Uber’s board members just made a sexist comment about women talking too much? The audience was stunned; Bonderman, a seventy-five-year-old white billionaire hedge funder from Fort Worth, Texas, was dunking on women in the middle of the board’s company-wide presentation about
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