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Silicon Valley Women, in Cultural Shift, Frankly Describe Sexual Harassment

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Re: Silicon Valley Women, in Cultural Shift, Frankly Describe Sexual Harassment

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Post by adrienne »

eropple wrote: post #859
adrienne wrote: post #856

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It was a job interview .

'adrienne, it looks like you've been hellbanned. I've vouched this post and your other post, but figured you should know so you're not just yelling into the void. When I've run across you I've consistently thought your positions were reasonable and from a group consistently both marginalized and ignored on HN, so I'm very surprised you're hellbanned.

'eropple: I know i'm hellbanned. It's because i'm too mean, according to 'dang. Sometimes i shout into the void anyway, figuring people will have showdead on, that's all.

Re: Silicon Valley Women, in Cultural Shift, Frankly Describe Sexual Harassment

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Post by BrendanEich »

geofft wrote: post #729
sillysaurus3 wrote: post #714

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His reputation is in ruins. It remains to be seen whether anybody will do business with him. Both of those combined equals social ostracism, so we should at least be sure it's warranted.

This sounds remarkably like the sort of sky-is-falling rhetoric I heard on this website when Brendan Eich was pushed out of Mozilla. He's now the CEO of a of a two-year-old startup with $7M in funding. I'd love to have my reputation ruined in the way Brendan Eich's was! It is technically true that it remains to be seen whether anybody will do business with him, but I strongly suspect they will. For the purpose of acc…

Dragging my name into threads about harassment is lazy analogizing. Adding the post hoc, propter hoc fallacy (I got a CEO startup job and funding after being "pushed out", therefore because of that) is just dopey. I founded Brave, it was not just a job offered to me.

Nothing about my exit from Mozilla made fund-raising or building Brave easier than it would have been without my exit. If I had stayed at Mozilla and managed to sell the Brave plan internally (unlikely), I'd have had lots more funding and market power. What I've done has been achieved through careful planning, hard work, and help from the great team I recruited.

You can stop dragging my name into these kinds of HN threads now (two and counting!).

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