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I would be curious to know if he is still entitled to his full Board member salary.
The remark was discussed earlier in this (flagged to death) thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14548761
I really wonder why that got flagged that much. It's like this post, it's being moderated down super fast. Weird
The remark: At an Uber staff meeting earlier in the day, Arianna Huffington, another Uber board member, said one woman on a board often leads to more women joining a board. Mr. Bonderman responded “that it’s much more likely to be more talking.” Seems ironic that Arianna's own site posted this: Biological Evidence May Support Idea That Women Talk More Than Men, Study Says http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/21/wome…
There's two things I'd like to say: 1) The media rarely characterizes the actual underlying science correctly. In this case, the journal entry [0] and an author of the paper herself[1] characterize it as simply a "difference" and are careful to not concretely link it to human-observable behavioral differences (such as "Women talk more", which the media is more than happy to expand upon to clickbaity levels in order t…
The remark: At an Uber staff meeting earlier in the day, Arianna Huffington, another Uber board member, said one woman on a board often leads to more women joining a board. Mr. Bonderman responded “that it’s much more likely to be more talking.” Seems ironic that Arianna's own site posted this: Biological Evidence May Support Idea That Women Talk More Than Men, Study Says http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/21/wome…
If you can't say anything without someone getting offended, maybe your communications stack is out of date.
I can't find it now, but there's a video of one of Ben Horowitz's lectures where he says one benefit of hiring women is that they communicate more openly and effectively, at least with each other. If a woman feels marginalized by another woman during a meeting, she's more likely to communicate that and solve the problem, rather than holding onto it. I don't know if this is true or not, but since there was no backlash…
Fun that his comment likely will result in more women on that board, and probably more (substantive) talking.
But, in my experience, it's not women who predominantly do that ;)
Fun that his comment likely will result in more women on that board, and probably more (substantive) talking.
I hate meetings. I hate people who just love to hear themselves talk. But, in my experience, it's not women who predominantly do that ;)
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I hate meetings. I hate people who just love to hear themselves talk. But, in my experience, it's not women who predominantly do that ;)
Not a meeting fan either, but what else would a board do other than talk?