Carta: When Your Company Tries to Cancel You
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#2Sounds like a terrible CEO. Do I smell an Adam Neumann exit opportunity for the CEO?
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#3From the original blog post:
> I had joined as a Director with a single direct report, been promoted three times in two years to Chief Technology Officer, and then led engineering through a period of unprecedented growth to a team more than 400 strong.
Carta had a 400 person engineering team?
I know they raised a lot of money, but this seems like a lot of engineers for what I thought they did. Maybe they were exploring a lot more functionality than I’m familiar with.
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#4From the original blog post: > I had joined as a Director with a single direct report, been promoted three times in two years to Chief Technology Officer, and then led engineering through a period of unprecedented growth to a team more than 400 strong. Carta had a 400 person engineering team? I know they raised a lot of money, but this seems like a lot of engineers for what I thought they did. Maybe they were explori…
Maybe they have a lot of
microservices.
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#5Here’s the text:
If last week's shit-show was not the end of @cartainc , this definitely is
* the sales representative who whipped his dick out at a company event, and was promoted a few weeks later.
* you read the texts one manager sent to her Mom about an executive touching her under the table at a work dinner, let alone her claims that she was subsequently “admonished for ‘having her legs out’” and fired after she escalated to HR.
* the Head of Corporate Compliance was fired a week after she learned that the People Team had been instructed to stop logging complaints in the company’s whistleblower platform.
* When the company claims it fired another female executive in part for “taking unauthorized leave,” after she reported to the Chief People Officer that the CEO’s gaslighting and abuse had shaken her so much she needed a day to collect herself…
* CEO who has turned over no fewer than eleven C-suite executives in five years — and settled at least three discrimination cases in the last year alone
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#6Sounds like a clown show all around, standard for the golden age of fraud.
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#7Here’s the text: If last week's shit-show was not the end of @cartainc , this definitely is * the sales representative who whipped his dick out at a company event, and was promoted a few weeks later. * you read the texts one manager sent to her Mom about an executive touching her under the table at a work dinner, let alone her claims that she was subsequently “admonished for ‘having her legs out’” and fired after she…
I have no idea whether any of that is true. If it’s not, Carta should sue the hell out them for libel. If it is, wow…
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#8> And it’s hard to believe Carta’s response to my board letter of October 2022 — trying desperately to signal my worry that the company’s leadership was breaking the law and putting the business at risk — would be to hire a forensic firm to recover a copy of my personal Apple iMessage history and publish private messages with enthusiastically-consenting sexual and romantic partners that had nothing whatsoever to do with the company…and then use those messages as a pretext to falsely accuse me of harassment and discrimination
emphasis on "enthusiastic". i get what Dr. Talton was going for here but it made me laugh that he had to put his partners' enthusiasm on the record (and the not so funny side: it is extremely f'ed up that Carta put his private affairs into public record in the first place. i'm not looking it up and i feel sorry for Dr. Talton.)
> When I finally decided that — as a fiduciary — I had no choice but to write to Carta’s board, I hoped that my record of accomplishment and my commitment to the company would ensure I was taken seriously.... And if I, a 40-year-old 6’2” cis white guy in the C-suite with a Stanford PhD, couldn’t speak up, who could?
amen. very well written and it seems the case is building against Carta's CEO.
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#9Here’s the text: If last week's shit-show was not the end of @cartainc , this definitely is * the sales representative who whipped his dick out at a company event, and was promoted a few weeks later. * you read the texts one manager sent to her Mom about an executive touching her under the table at a work dinner, let alone her claims that she was subsequently “admonished for ‘having her legs out’” and fired after she…
What is a chief people officer?
Re: Carta: When Your Company Tries to Cancel You
#10Here’s the text: If last week's shit-show was not the end of @cartainc , this definitely is * the sales representative who whipped his dick out at a company event, and was promoted a few weeks later. * you read the texts one manager sent to her Mom about an executive touching her under the table at a work dinner, let alone her claims that she was subsequently “admonished for ‘having her legs out’” and fired after she…
What is a chief people officer?
Head of HR