The End of My VC Career
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The End of My VC Career
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#2Am I the only one who doesn't care about anybody's sexual past? Let a comedian be judged on comedy. Let a VC be judged on investments.
For everything else there's the law. No reason to set up an extra judicial system based primarily on media headlines.
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#3Am I the only one who doesn't care about anybody's sexual past? Let a comedian be judged on comedy. Let a VC be judged on investments. For everything else there's the law. No reason to set up an extra judicial system based primarily on media headlines.
The VC in this case had a sexual history that included sexual assault:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-18/will-brit...
> In 2012, police spotted London venture capitalist Stefan Glaenzer acting erratically on a subway platform. He was lurching around, high out of his mind, when he boarded a crowded train and rubbed his groin against a woman standing inside. After his arrest, Glaenzer, the multimillionaire former executive chairman of the online music service Last.fm Ltd., apologized and pleaded guilty to sexual assault, which put him on the U.K.’s sex offender registry.
Of course, there's a worthwhile debate about how we should allow ex-convicts to be a part of society again. But the VC written about here wasn't someone who is accused of just having affairs.
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#4Am I the only one who doesn't care about anybody's sexual past? Let a comedian be judged on comedy. Let a VC be judged on investments. For everything else there's the law. No reason to set up an extra judicial system based primarily on media headlines.
I generally agree that we as a society need to be more forgiving of people's pasts. The #MeToo fad is more about bringing justice to offenders that escaped justice in the past, but this guy didn't get off scot-free for years like Weinstein, Spacey, etc. This case seemed like a one off thing where he made some poor choices and was punished by the legal system for it.
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#5Am I the only one who doesn't care about anybody's sexual past? Let a comedian be judged on comedy. Let a VC be judged on investments. For everything else there's the law. No reason to set up an extra judicial system based primarily on media headlines.
The legal system hasn’t been effective in many of these cases. Hell, some dude raped a chick with multiple eye witnesses at Stanford and only got 6months jail time.
Additionally, the folks abusing people have used career pressure to keep folks from going to the legal system in the first place. (see Weinstein). If the abusers can use this pressure, I see no reason why victims shouldn’t respond in kind.
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#6Am I the only one who doesn't care about anybody's sexual past? Let a comedian be judged on comedy. Let a VC be judged on investments. For everything else there's the law. No reason to set up an extra judicial system based primarily on media headlines.
The VC in this case had a sexual history that included sexual assault: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-18/will-brit... > In 2012, police spotted London venture capitalist Stefan Glaenzer acting erratically on a subway platform. He was lurching around, high out of his mind, when he boarded a crowded train and rubbed his groin against a woman standing inside. After his arrest, Glaenzer, the multimillion…
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Re: The End of My VC Career
#7Am I the only one who doesn't care about anybody's sexual past? Let a comedian be judged on comedy. Let a VC be judged on investments. For everything else there's the law. No reason to set up an extra judicial system based primarily on media headlines.
There are enough talented people with no known history of sexual assault that we need not bend over backwards to keep the ones that do have such a history
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#8Am I the only one who doesn't care about anybody's sexual past? Let a comedian be judged on comedy. Let a VC be judged on investments. For everything else there's the law. No reason to set up an extra judicial system based primarily on media headlines.
The legal system hasn’t been effective in many of these cases. Hell, some dude raped a chick with multiple eye witnesses at Stanford and only got 6months jail time. Additionally, the folks abusing people have used career pressure to keep folks from going to the legal system in the first place. (see Weinstein). If the abusers can use this pressure, I see no reason why victims shouldn’t respond in kind.
It’s hard to argue against this but the reality is that you’re advocating vigilantism. That has its own downsides and the wisdom of crowds leads to witch trials so there is a trade off to consider.
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#9Am I the only one who doesn't care about anybody's sexual past? Let a comedian be judged on comedy. Let a VC be judged on investments. For everything else there's the law. No reason to set up an extra judicial system based primarily on media headlines.
I live in California, and I avoid searching our state's sex offender database. [1] If there's someone in my life that is a registered sex offender, I don't want to know about it. I just don't like fishing for reasons to not like someone.
One thing I find very odd about the disclaimer [2] on California sex offender's site in general is this text in the site's disclaimer...
Penalty for Registered Sex Offenders Who Enter this Website. Any person who is required to register pursuant to Penal Code section 290 who accesses the websites search functionality is punishable by a fine not exceeding $1,000, imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding six months, or by both the fine and imprisonment. (Penal Code § 290.46, subd. (k).) This penalty does not include viewing information on the Main page or within the links on that page.
Why bother making it be illegal for a registered sex offender to search the database?
Re: The End of My VC Career
#10Am I the only one who doesn't care about anybody's sexual past? Let a comedian be judged on comedy. Let a VC be judged on investments. For everything else there's the law. No reason to set up an extra judicial system based primarily on media headlines.
> Am I the only one who doesn't care about anybody's sexual past?
In general, I don't care either...however, if I was to see multiple under-15 charges I certainly would 1. like to be aware of the info and 2. keep my 14yo daughter away from this disturbed predator.
Is their nothing in anyone's past that would give you pause?