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On a contempo adventure of Recode Decode, hosted by Kara Swisher, broker and administrator Ellen Pao abutting Swisher in flat to allocution about her new book “Reset: My Action for Admittance and Lasting Change.” The book deals with the after-effects of Pao’s ultimately bootless accusation adjoin her aloft employer Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, in which she declared gender discrimination. She additionally talks about her afterwards assignment as acting CEO of Reddit, what she thinks of the arguable announcement accounting by aloft Google architect James Damore, and why we shouldn’t booty tech companies’ proclamations of “free speech” celebrity at face value.
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Kara Swisher: Today in the red armchair is Ellen Pao, who's the columnist of the new book, “Reset, My Action for Admittance and Lasting Change.” In 2015, she sued her aloft employer, the adventure basic close Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, for gender discrimination. She additionally formed in business development at Reddit afore confined as its acting CEO. Today, she is a accomplice at Kapor Capital, and co-founder of the nonprofit assortment alignment Project Include. I acquire interviewed Ellen abounding times before; we covered the trial, and I've accepted her for a absolute continued time. Ellen, acceptable to Recode Decode.
Ellen Pao: Acknowledge you for accepting me.
No problem. You've been on a tear. You've been array of everywhere, it's Ellen Pao. This book is accepting a lot of attention.
It's been good. It's been great. Also, it's been calling absorption to the issues, which is important.
Which is now, of course, it's absolute timing, or acceptable timing for bad things, or whatever. We're activity to allocution about the book in a second, but aboriginal I appetite to allocution about ... We're activity to acquire bodies don't apperceive who you are. Anybody in Silicon Valley absolutely does, but let's allocution about how you got to breadth you got. You had started off, you acquire absolutely a resume. So why don't you go through that absolutely quickly?
I started out belief electrical engineering at Princeton. I additionally did a ancillary affidavit in the Wilson Academy of Accessible and International Affairs. I went beeline to Harvard Law School.
Before that in the book, you allocution a lot about your accomplishments and growing up — array of seems idyllic, the accomplishments you had.
It was nice, yeah. I mean, it wasn't absolutely idyllic, because it was a little bit of a baby town. They didn't absolutely acquire absolute abounding Asians, so there was a little bit of astriction there. But my parents were ... we had banquet calm every night. It was absolute education-oriented. My mom was a researcher at the lab so we had admission to computers. My dad was a algebraic professor. So we had admission to a lot of advice and educational accoutrement and focus.
And achievement, about achievement.
Yeah, the anticipation was, they had appear from China on apprenticeship scholarships, and for them, apprenticeship was the aisle to success and the aisle to accidental back.
It was gender-based, they were accusation both.
Right. I anticipate we had three girls.
Right, exactly.
So there was no adeptness to be arbitrary or gender-oriented.
But it wasn't that, it's that your mother was a researcher. She had a cogent job, and the abstraction was that you could accomplish whatever you want. That's the acute idea.
Yeah, but the goals weren't that great. They were like, "If you could be a assistant or a doctor, that would be so awesome. You can do it if you assignment adamantine enough."
So you went on to Princeton, go ahead.
Went on to Princeton and then, afterwards Princeton, I went to Harvard Law School. I accomplished accumulated law for two years, a year in New York and afresh a year in Hong Kong, mostly men in the group. It was fine, but I knew from my summer jobs I didn't appetite to convenance law. It was a lot of atramentous bodies who are lawyers.
Sure, that's a altered story. That's not necessarily gender-based — anybody in law seems unhappy, appealing much. But you had electric engineering as your accomplishments at Princeton. Why accumulated law? Why not engineering, really?
I didn't apperceive what it was. It was a little bit of ignorance, but additionally I like the argumentation and I anticipation I could do big things with law, and at the time the electrical engineering was a little bit ... Silicon Valley was not big yet. It was added limited, and I aloof didn't apperceive what was out there. I anticipation accumulated law, I could acquire an impact. I concluded up not acumen what accumulated law absolutely was.
All right, so you had this abundant resume aboriginal on. You were on an accomplishment path, which abounding bodies are. From there you went where?
I went to Harvard Business School.
All right, so you got ...
All of them. I basic to come, and afresh I was so out of blow with tech, I'm activity to go aback to business school. I concluded up spending my summer at Bain in San Francisco. I formed for a brace of tech projects and admired it. I anticipation it was great. Came aback afterwards business school.
What were they?
I don't apperceive if we're accustomed to allocution about our clients, but one was like a big software aggregation and one was a accouterments aggregation that was tanking. It was two — one on the acceleration in a new industry, and one tanking. You could see, it was an absorbing contrast. It was fun.
From there, you went to the business school, and your ambition there was to ...
To get aback into tech.
Get aback into tech.
So I came aback out, I abutting this startup alleged WebTV, which ...
I forgot you were there.
Yeah, and afresh it got bought. Afore I started, it got appear that Microsoft had acquired it, so I abutting in this alteration breadth it was afore Microsoft absolutely dug its fingers into it, but there was some change. But it was cool, there were a lot of air-conditioned people. There were a lot of bodies from Accepted Magic and from Apple. We were architecture a air-conditioned product, it was advocate at the time. Bodies would be application the internet and their computers in the active room, instead of in the office.
That's right.
That was a new concept.
And afresh Microsoft anon bashed it down. It was one of those, there were like 27 purchases during that year. A lot of bodies got absolute affluent accomplishing that. You went from there to?
I went from there to a startup alleged Tellme Networks.
You were at Tellme with Mike McCue, okay.
That was fun.
Which additionally got austere by Microsoft.
It additionally got austere by Microsoft. Actually, in amid I formed for Andy Rubin at Danger Research, which additionally got austere by Microsoft.
Right, okay.
So three big, over $300 actor acquisitions by Microsoft. Additionally formed MyCFO.
I bethink that.
So I formed with some absolutely air-conditioned people, and I formed with some air-conditioned startups. Jim Clark.
Yeah, I'll never forget, I was at a banquet with him, and he said, "You know, Kara, if you acquire a brace actor dollars ... " I was like, "Hmm, your accumulation is a little small," because he lived in his apple of multimillionaires, and it was absolute funny. I anticipation bodies who are absolute affluent like to be petted absolutely a bit, so I didn't see how an online aperture for their abundance was commodity that they ...
You were right, it didn't work.
Yes. I was like, "Rich bodies like the covering and the coffee and the champagne."
And to alarm somebody and acquire them answerable appropriate away.
Yes, exactly. So that was an advance at that. So how did you get to Kleiner?
Somebody, a acquaintance of mine, showed me the job spec. For arch of staff. He wasn't interested, but you looked at the job spec, and they basic somebody with an electrical engineering degree, or computer science bulk from a top school, and they basic somebody with a GD MBA, and they basic somebody who had jobs at arch action software companies, and formed at startups, finer Kleiner-backed. Right, so Tellme was Kleiner-backed.
What were the added requirements? Then, the jobs in these companies had to be either accumulated development or business development, and I'd done business development. Afresh the aftermost affair was they basic somebody who batten Chinese, Mandarin Chinese. I was like, "This is absolutely awe-inspiring because it matches my accomplishments exactly," and I had absolutely no beat or acumen for any of the things I've done. It was all absolute random, but it fit some specific ideal of a actuality that they were attractive for. I was like, "Well, I'll aloof account and see what they're thinking, why it's interesting." Actually, I affronted bottomward the job initially. I was like, "Not for me." I'm on this trajectory, and they're cogent me in a year I could be VP, but I'm ready, I'll be a VP in a year at a startup if I abide on this track. But afresh John Doerr awash me.
Right, John Doerr, he was ...
He's the best agent in the world. He sat me down, he was like, "Just do it. Aloof try. It will accessible doors." I said, "Well, why not."
All right, so your abstraction was you basic to become a adventure capitalist, or that to be sitting abutting to John Doerr during all these dealmaking is like a abundant seat?
Yeah. To be sitting abutting to John Doerr in an industry that was changing. It was transforming, and he had the buffet seat, so to be abutting to him, to be able to see aggregate that was activity on, to be able to see all these new technologies, was agitative to me.
And so you did this. It would be a job best bodies would take, like, "What a abundant opportunity," affectionate of thing. I don't appetite ... because we covered the balloon a lot, anybody covered the balloon a lot, but it immediately, about soon, affronted abominably there. You ... absolute briefly and afresh you get to the trial.
I was there, I assumption two years aback I approved to quit. They're like, "No, no, no. You're accomplishing the best of anybody in the firm, you should stay." I said, "Fine." So I stayed, and afresh let's see, and afresh in 2012, so that allegation acquire been four years later, things kept happening. I wasn't progressing, none of the women were progressing, and bad things were accident to people. I concluded up activity through every access I could internally, and assuredly I said, "Okay, this has to stop, I'm activity to sue."
What prevented you from leaving? I'm aloof curious, because this was a fast-moving time, too, in Silicon Valley.
In 2012?
Yeah. I assumption you're right, 2008 was a little slow, but it got ...
I could acquire left, but I was like, "But somebody has to stop this." Commodity absolutely bad could acquire happened, and I would acquire acquainted that was on me because I had let that person, I had let the guy who was afflictive bodies stay. They shouldn't acquire put it on me to accomplish that decision, but I acquainted like it was my fault. Bad things happened to this added partner, I anticipation worse things could accumulate accident if cipher holds bodies accountable, yeah, and changes the culture, because this is commodity that seems to now be rewarded. So I said I was activity to break and book this complaint, and afresh I was activity to leave. Afresh my attorneys were like, "No, no, no, no, no. You allegation to stay," so I concluded up blockage for six added months.
Right. And so, the balloon — we apprehend about the balloon and I would adulation to get your ... You wrote about this in the book, and maybe you blab that now, how do you feel about how it went? Obviously, you didn't win. They had an amazing acknowledged close adjoin yours. They had so abounding troops, it was absolutely visually alluring to watch, and a little bit scary, actually, from your perspective.
It was so unfair. Also, my team, they were ethical. Really, they followed the law, they basic the accuracy to appear out. There was beneath of that on the added side. I don't appetite to alarm them unethical, but there was the way they presented things was absolute ...
They were absolute super-aggressive. They had a anecdotal about you.
Yes.
You absolutely talked about it in the book. I anticipate I tweeted the quote, it was, "You're advancing and unlikeable and yet shy and annihilation ...
Sharp elbows, or not aciculate enough. It continues, but there's annihilation I could acquire done to be perfect. But the affair is, we did the aforementioned affair to the added women in the firm. There was this anecdotal about how we assignment that was absolute acicular and presented in a way that was abundantly advancing at trial.
Were you abashed by that?
No.
Of advance that's what they would do. I'm not abashed in any way.
You see it with every added actuality who sues: "Oh, they're a poor performer. Oh, their case has no merit. We're activity to action vigorously."
How did you feel afterwards the trial? It went on for a continued time. It did accessible people's eyes, I think, there was no catechism about it. I remember, because we covered it absolutely a bit, that I would be places and addition would say, "I had that experience." It was the aboriginal time I anticipate women did alpha talking about it. I was at one accident and addition was account our coverage, and they were like, "Ugh, I apperceive that one, that one." You apperceive what I mean? It was absolutely an absorbing ...
There were bodies who were account your advantage every day, because you were live-tweeting from the trial.
Yeah, liveblogging.
Ellen Pao: Yeah, Shonda Rhimes was like, "I followed your balloon every day," because I told her I watched her appearance every week, because I was like, "That was my one escape." But I anticipate it had an appulse on people, because it was the aboriginal time these things were bright out loud in public. There were so abounding bodies who said, "You know, these things happened to me, but I haven't alike told my husband. I haven't told anybody for 10 years, but these things happened, so I acquire you." I anticipate it was additionally the aggressiveness of the attacks on me, breadth bodies were like, "Hey, I absolutely acquire you." They acquainted like they basic to appear out and say that to me. That was super-helpful to me.
Do you acquire abjure about accomplishing that? Or annihilation that you did that you anticipate you did wrong? Not amiss — I'm not adage you did commodity amiss — but in agreement of strategically in ambidextrous with this?
Yeah, I beggarly I could acquire been smarter on the PR front. I could acquire spent added time with the press. I anticipate they had credibility every day that they were aggravating to make. They were handing them out, and I was added like, "Oh, my advocate said we shouldn't say anything. The adjudicator said not to say anything, so I'm activity to chase the rules." That, acutely it didn't assignment so well.
I anticipate aboriginal on, the actuality that every juror applicant who believed that tech was a biased industry got booted off. That seems like a axiological error, and I feel like I should acquire pushed harder adjoin that. I concluded up giving 700,000 pages of documents. They gave 5,000, right? So, that wasn't a abundant strategy. But I didn't acquire the resources. They had bodies who ... they had teams of bodies accomplishing things.
They did.
And I aloof didn't.
You didn't. Breadth you abashed by the outcome?
There was a allotment of me that was like, "It's so unfair," and, "I should win." But if you attending at how the law slices, you allegation to win by added than ...
Because you're a lawyer. I mean, you acquire ...
Yeah, so I can acquire it, alike admitting it was corporate. It had to be one specific blazon of bias. It had to be the gender bent that was captivation me aback by added than 50 percent chance. But there's additionally age bias, and there's additionally ancestral bias, so was it all gender? Was there some added factor?
I was absorbed by the ancestral allotment of it. I acquire I should acquire been addled by the gender issues, but I was added addled by how they were assuming you as an Asian person. It acquainted so like an old Charlie Chan movies, like “inscrutable,” like all the old asinine tropes about Asians were in there, in that trial. No one noticed them. I kept going, "What? Did they aloof say she was inscrutable?" Because I anticipate that's what they said. It was absolutely interesting. I begin that to be abundant added advancing to me in abounding ways, because the added actuality was so obvious, these were boring layered in in a way that I anticipation was absolute able additionally at the aforementioned time.
I don't apperceive if it helped the lath or not. Aback the balloon concluded — and you address about this in the book — it put you at a basic of like, what are you activity to do? Because you had put yourself out there, about absolutely — completely, actually. You were absolutely a bare in the atramentous abundance of this issue. One of the things that we wrote about absolutely a bit was that for a lot of people, the aftereffect wasn't, "This is terrible," it's, "Oh, we can't acquire so abounding women."
Yeah.
"That was aloof a awe-inspiring abandoned adventure ... She's got some problem, Ellen's got some problems." Meaning, I think, it's the "She's not a absolute victim" argument, essentially. How did you feel anon after?
There's a faculty of relief, like, "Finally I can get out of this and not acquire to be in the accessible spotlight, not acquire to be cerebration about these issues. I can aloof move on."
It's not what happened.
No, but additionally I was still at Reddit, so I was still working. It was a abatement additionally to be able to focus 100 percent on active Reddit. I anticipate it was adamantine to see that this was accident to so abounding added people. There was still this anecdotal about how this case was a problem. It's now authoritative bodies beneath accommodating to appoint women, and additionally there's so abundant focus on the gender, and there are additionally all of these added types of bent and discrimination. There was not a composure about the discussions about it. It was absolute abundant like, "How do we authority on to what we set up and accomplish abiding that we can abide to run things the way we've been active things?"
Right, so what do brainstorm the appulse was? Because I anticipate it was abundant later, I anticipate you array of set the arena up for what afresh came this accomplished year.
I anticipate it was giving bodies a bigger compassionate of what's happening. That a lot of things acquire happened to individuals, and they didn't apperceive how to action it, and actuality was a way of attractive at it in ambience and accepting it accurate as, "This is absolutely discriminatory. This is absolutely bias. This what is systematically preventing you from succeeding, and it's not your own fault." Bodies started talking to anniversary other.
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13 best Bhu images on Pinterest | Funny memes, Funny stuff and ... | she wasn t ready memeThey started talking publicly, and you saw this bulk of woman afterwards woman afterwards woman, and a few men, bringing up their own stories, anniversary time accepting airtight by the columnist or by the public. But I anticipate there were abundant bodies abaft the scenes actuality supportive, so I would address to some of them and acquaint them that what they're doing, "You're accomplishing a acceptable thing, I acquire you. This absolutely did appear to you, aloof avoid the comments, aloof move on." I anticipate over time it laid the background for [Uber engineer] Susan [Fowler] to appear out — she did a abundant job address her acquaintance — and for bodies to say, "All right, this is absolutely happening. Let's not try to aces afar the adventure or the person, let's attending at the problem." I anticipate in the aftermost year we've apparent bodies now acquire there is a problem.
When was that? It's introducing — because castigation is gender discrimination, chastening was ... Alike admitting I anticipate what she absolutely was autograph about was a administration out of control, which I anticipate is why it was so effective, but she was talking about animal harassment, too. Which is addition avenue, a terrible, abhorrent avenue. But do you anticipate that's why it had so abundant added resonance with Susan at Uber? Or is it allotment of the aforementioned ...
I anticipate there was a mix. I anticipate there were abundant bodies who had afresh laid the groundwork. I apperceive from bodies advancing up to me in the artery or autograph to me, that there are men who are starting to say, "You know, my accessory told me this affair happened to her, too. You bringing it up fabricated her feel adequate talking about it, so I acquire you, too." I anticipate there were abundant bodies starting to allocution about it that it laid the background for bodies to believe. I additionally anticipate she did a abundant job actuality absolute meticulous. She had all the receipts. She was absolute accurate in, like, "I'm not accomplishing this for money. I'm not accomplishing this for fame. I am aloof laying out what happened to me." So, absolute unemotional, absolute careful.
Yeah, it wasn't emotional. That's absolutely the appropriate chat for it, which is interesting. But you did that too. You had your ...
People were not accessible at that point.
You had your list. One of the things you address about in the book is this, you had your list. Your, what is it called? What did you alarm it? The ache ... The trial, I'm blanking.
You apperceive what, it was like a analysis thing, my acerbity list.
Yeah.
It should never acquire been in the courtroom, but whatever.
Right, yeah, because it fabricated you assume like an affronted lady, essentially.
Right, befitting clue of things.
Right, slights.
But I was like, whatever. But I additionally think, bodies admired Kleiner. There were a few bodies who had had abhorrent adventures and they accomplished out to me, but in accepted bodies ...
And they adulation John Doerr.
They adulation John Doerr, and they were abashed of Kleiner. I anticipate Uber did not acquire that reputation.
No.
It had a acceptability of actuality aggressive, of not afterwards the law and of actuality invasive of privacy, and affectionate of this ...
Right, that's a fair point. I didn't anticipate about that, because they're like, let's annihilate that, alike admitting they were array of the honeypot of Silicon Valley appropriate now, at the aforementioned time cipher ... they had no friends.
Yeah, and they had the God View, and they're accomplishing all sorts of things that were affectionate of benumbed the bend of ethics.
So of advance they did, too, which they did.
Yeah, it was easier to believe. If Kleiner could do this, and we anticipation they were so great, able-bodied of advance Uber's accomplishing it.
Why did you address this book? We aloof talked about the trial, it absolutely took its assessment on your life. They attacked your claimed activity absolutely a bit, which was advancing to a lot of people, to watch that happen, array of the appearance assassination. Bodies are added than welcome, I think, not to like you, it's on their own, but it absolutely was absolutely an effort. You went to Reddit afterward. You became CEO, and afresh you became accountable to a alternation of eviscerating attacks online.
But we fabricated the appropriate decisions, right?
Right.
We got rid of crooked pictures, naked pictures. We got rid of animus porn and afresh all the added companies. We were the aboriginal big aggregation to do that. Afresh we got rid of some of these absolutely afflictive subreddits. Recently there's a address that said, I anticipate out of Georgia Tech, that said the assignment that we did absolutely worked. Those bristles subreddits advancing down, those bodies ...
The bullying, the ugliness.
Yeah, it afflicted the behavior of the bodies who were accomplishing it. It helped accomplish the armpit better. We knew that aback we were accomplishing it, but it was adamantine for bodies to acquire that change. In this ambiance breadth bodies were absolute conjugal to chargeless speech, it became a claimed advance on me.
Right, so why did you pay, and not Alexis or any of the others?
I anticipate it was ... There's a lot misogyny and racism on the site. It's not pretty. Aback the actuality who's aggravating to get rid of it is absolutely a woman of color, it inflames some of those affections and those reactions.
Did you apprehend that akin of ire?
We talked about it. The armpit is noxious, so I was assured some, but there were attacks on my family. And the bulk of energy, you know, bodies did these super-elaborate memes.
Yeah, I saw some of them.
And afresh Photoshopping to perfection. I'm like, "Think about the acceptable that you could do if you put that assignment someplace.” My god.
You didn't advance that, did you?
I anticipate I said commodity in my book about that.
Yeah.
Because really, that bulk of activity and effort, and it was absolutely absolutely accomplished in some cases ...
Why do you anticipate that is? Why is that? Why do you allure that? I'm not adage it's your fault, but what is it?
I think, I would not engage, so I did not ...
Right, and you had done the trial, so you're able-bodied accepted for that.
Also, I acquire super-thick skin, accepting appear through all that. I like, "No. I apperceive what we're accomplishing is right, and we're aloof activity to accumulate going." Because I was so abiding about it, and unwavering, it helped my team. They were like, "Okay. We're on this path. She's not joking. Let's aloof do it."
I anticipate it was a aggregation effort, absolute abundant so. I accurate their decisions. Somebody else, the actuality who headed our association team, best the bristles subreddits to booty down. I was like, "This is your call, it's your aggregation that's activity to be ambidextrous with all this, so I'm abetment you 100 percent." We aloof went and we did it, but it was not ... I anticipate it was the women on the aggregation who got doxxed and who got Photoshopped, and one actuality got fat-shamed. There's a lot misogyny. I don't apperceive if that was a action to put me in there to booty all that, but it affectionate of took a lot of activity out. They asked me to leave.
The declared acumen they said to me was, "We basic to get to like 350 actor users, or 500 actor users by the end of the year." I said, "That is not possible. That aloof is not possible. We're activity to focus our accomplishment on accepting rid of all this, all this aggravation on the site, and accepting rid of some added ... the baneful genitalia of the site. We're not focused on growth." The artefact is almost alive and scaling, so there's a lot of ...
Things that allegation to be fixed.
Yeah, we've got a lot abstruse debt, and you appetite us to hire. There's alone so abundant that can be done. I can't accomplish to you that we'll get to 350 million. They're like, "Okay, so we'll acquisition somebody else." I don't anticipate they're at 350 actor now, two years later.
It's interesting, because I anticipate a lot of ... aback you anticipate about breadth the priorities are, one of the ones that runs acerb through the Valley is this chargeless accent idea, and why are we aggravation with this, and this and that. You allocution about that a lot. Is that commodity that's ... because it goes aback and alternating on whether it's a acceptable thing, but that's one of the things you consistently hear, is, "Well, bodies should be able to say what they want. Bodies should be able to do what they want. These accoutrement are there not to be restricted."
Yeah, I was one of those people. In academy I was the editor of this academy circadian paper. I was absolute abundant like, "What we do is badly valuable. We allegation to be able to address what we appetite to write." We outed some advisers for bad behavior. That journalistic integrity, and actuality able to address what you appetite to write, is not how it's played out on the internet. It's not acclimated ... This abstraction of chargeless accent is acclimated to assure afflictive behavior and afflictive messages, and that, I think, is absolutely adverse to the absolute goals of chargeless speech.
The goals of chargeless accent are to acquire this belvedere breadth bodies allotment ideas, and you acquire conversations, and you argue anniversary added about the account of all these altered account and opinions advancing together. What you end up with is a agglomeration of absolutely loud high-populated groups accusation off added people, the marginalized choir that chargeless accent is declared to accredit and protect.
So, how do you see that? Because on one hand, you appetite to apprehend the animal speech, don't you? Or not?
If it's ideas. But if it's just, "I'm activity to bark a agglomeration of anathema words at you," cipher wants to apprehend that.
All right, able-bodied let's booty James Damore, for example. Which, I aloof talked to Suzanne Majewski bygone about the battlefront round, and she was absolutely close that they did the appropriate affair at Google.
I agree, yeah.
Others did not. There's absolutely ... they don't about say it, but I apperceive it's there and you apprehend it, and you can see there's a lot of bodies absolute admiring of him and what he said. He didn't say ... Google has fabricated its argument, which I anticipate I accede is additionally correct, that he would actualize an alarming assignment environment. But you know, what's accident in Berkeley, what's accident everywhere else, and the groups of men who appetite to say what they appetite to say, allotment of me is like, "Yeah, let's apprehend them. Let's apprehend the ugliness, because it's not accessible to shut it down."
Pretend it doesn't exist.
Yes, exactly. Yeah. How do you attending at that? Who decides? That's the difficult part.
I anticipate it's altered from my assignment environment, like who are my aeon and who am I alive with. I don't appetite to acquire bodies in my appointment cogent bodies that they are not qualified, that women are worse engineers than men. That is not advantageous to my assignment environment. That is not my bulk as a company. So that abstraction has to go, and if you can't be assertive that that is not the case, afresh you're not activity to be a advantageous accidental affiliate of my team, no bulk what.
If this is the goals of the team, right.
Right, right. I anticipate that ...
I'm aloof thinking, the Army, the Air Force currently aloof gave that speech, aloof the added day, "Get out."
Get out.
Yeah.
I anticipate there's a aberration between, what should the government accredit and what should you be able to say on these altered platforms, from what are you able to say in a assignment ambiance and what are you able to ...
So the assignment ambiance should be whatever the assignment decides it wants to be.
And its values, yeah.
Right.
I anticipate that's, for me, a appealing accessible case. Then, how do you anticipate about chargeless accent from the broader angle of, "I'm a belvedere and I appetite to animate these account and acquiesce bodies to see it." I anticipate for us at Reddit it was, aback you are afflictive bodies to the point they don't feel safe, they stop accommodating on your platform, that is the band that we're accommodating to draw.
We appetite all choir to be able to use the platform. There was a aeon of time where, afore we got rid of the crooked nude pictures, the accomplished armpit was bodies attractive for naked pictures of celebrities. We could not get annihilation abroad in because the appeal was so aerial and we couldn't account the absolute absolute conversations. So, is that what you appetite your armpit to be, devolve into the applesauce that bodies ...
The naked celebrity account site.
And if you're the alone armpit that allows it, afresh that is what you're activity to be, and you don't acquire any acceptable conversations then.
How do you acquiesce these choir to still acquire these opinions? I'm aloof application James as an example, Damore's example, I don't apperceive him. Should he be able to bright these things? Should we acquire to them? Who decides on what's acceptable to exist?
I absolutely don't like giving him that abundant absorption and credit.
Why?
Because I anticipate he's some rando who ...
I anticipate he's common. I anticipate he's absolute ...
Yeah, I think, but why him? He's not a appropriate person.
Not him in particular.
No, account I accede with, that we should be talking about them, but why should we accord him any attention? There's no acumen to.
Well, because I anticipate he does represent lots of people.
Yeah.
I anticipate to say, "Oh, he's ..."
But to use his name and to accord him all that attention. I had a huge botheration with The New York Times article, to present these account afterwards any affectionate of ambience and to accord him that belvedere I anticipate was irresponsible.
Well, except that I anticipate in audition them, I anticipate what's absorbing is happening, not aloof there, but aloof Berkeley, everywhere else, it's like, we don't appetite to apprehend it. Why not apprehend it? Why not apprehend Milo? Why not apprehend ... Listen, I don't appetite to acquire to Laura Anne Ingraham, but I appetite to acquire to Laura Anne Ingraham. You apperceive what I mean? I feel like if we don't apprehend it, it's assuming it's not there, and it feeds into that movement, which is depicting things as they are as a absolutely important admired thing.
I guess, where's the band amid depicting them as they are and auspicious them? Some of these account are not ones that you appetite to acquire encouraged, and not by your institution. So agnate to, it's different, because it's not a workplace, but agnate to your workplace, there are assertive account that you don't appetite to encourage.
Well, yeah, except afresh who decides? The issues, it's not aloof in the media, but it's the platforms, Facebook and others, because they're now de facto account organizations, as far as I can tell.
Yeah.
I don't anticipate not audition ... It's like demography a photograph, the photograph is what it is. I'm cerebration of this election, we didn't acquire to a lot of ... Like, should you adduce David Duke? Absolutely. If we had been commendation him more, we would acquire apparent it coming. Or beneath like, "Oh, he's a binding person." I'm like, "Is he?" You apperceive what I mean? That's the adversity of this.
I anticipate there's ...
I've heard a lot, "Don't accord bodies a platform." Why not bright them?
I anticipate so, but you allegation to accommodate the context. You allegation to accommodate ... You can't aloof end up with these silos that we acquire now, breadth it's like these acknowledgment chambers, and it's aloof bodies spinning out of control, and affected account advancing up and bodies assertive it, because it's gotten so far from the accuracy and there's no advice amid the two sides. I anticipate you acquire to be amenable as you do it. You can't aloof acquiesce accidental applesauce to breed afterwards any affectionate of context.
So what do you do? Because afresh that requires bodies to acquire a point of view. Google was absolute quick to get rid of him, because it's a abode issue, and that's what they afraid their hat on. But I think, internally aural Google, that a lot of bodies accurate this guy. What does a aggregation like Google do, for example? Or if you're Facebook, they were absolute afraid to move into this Russia area, because they're like, "We're aloof a amiable belvedere and we don't apperceive what goes on here."
But I anticipate that's bullshit.
I accede with you, and I said that abounding times. But at the aforementioned time, demography their point of appearance it's like, "Who decides?" They don't appetite to decide.
But they accomplish all these decisions every day. What is spam? What isn't allowed? Breasts on Facebook, and they're not decidedly acceptable at it, from what I've seen. They're authoritative these decisions, why not accomplish this accommodation about this? They're arch what's terrorist, what is agitation on your site. So, why not awning this area, as well. I anticipate you acquire to draw bright rules. I anticipate that's the problem.
I don't apperceive if you saw, maybe it was like a ages or two ago, the aphorism book was presented, and it was a mess. It was a absolute mess. I anticipate you acquire to acquire bright rules that you can point to and that bodies can understand, so that you're alive aural a system. Like adopting a adolescent — you've got to accord them the boundaries, and you either chase the boundaries or it's chaos.
So who should accomplish those rules?
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She Wasn't Ready (@SheWasntReadyFR) | Twitter | she wasn t ready memeThe botheration is aback you don't accomplish rules, you're acceptance this behavior that ... ends up authoritative the rules.
Right, exactly.
So you are authoritative rules anyway, so you may as able-bodied own up, booty the albatross or appoint some bodies that you pay a shit-ton of money to do that.
Why don't they appetite to? Why do you anticipate they don't appetite to? Because they absolutely still don't.
It is so abundant cheaper not to do it. Chargeless accent is accessible — it's free, you aloof let it go, whatever happens, happens. That's, I think, breadth Reddit got breadth it is today. It was this super-small organization, it's easier aloof to say, "We acquiesce whatever." It's an easier rule.
Anything goes.
It's a super-easy rule, we acquiesce whatever you appetite to say to go on the belvedere and that's it. You don't acquire to pay anybody to adviser it, you don't acquire to body technology, aloof anticipate it. It's a free-for-all, and everybody understands it, and that's what happens.
But I don't anticipate money's aloof it. It's commodity abroad ...
It's money and prioritization. It's, “I'd rather get added users, I'd rather bulk out my business model, I'd rather accomplish abiding the technology scales.” At the end of the day, the rules about the association and all of these abounding complicated decisions get de-prioritized.
And they're not accountable to the abuse, either ...
No, because best of them are white men.
Right, right. So how do you change that idea? You discussed this issue, how do you get that ... In the abutting section, I appetite to allocution projects, including things you're accomplishing now, but how do you get them to that? Because again, I would rather see what they absolutely think. Assuming they don't anticipate like this is ... I appetite to apprehend from them.
At Reddit, I was alive with a artefact administrator on this abstraction of bringing calm subreddits that are opposing and accepting conversations amid the added anxious bodies from those subreddits. Acquisition the moderators who are accessible to accepting a chat and are not aloof activity to scream at the added side, and absolutely acquire a chat about these altered issues, and see if you can accompany bodies calm a little bit more. Or at atomic acquire bodies anticipate through these account and actualize conversations beyond altered groups of subreddits so that it's not these silos. You can body some empathy. You can body some understanding. You can hopefully stop shouting at anniversary other.
Do you brainstorm you can do that? Because it seems like things acquire gotten absolute far.
I anticipate there are still bodies that you can, but it will be harder to acquisition those people, and there'll be a set of bodies who will never say, “That was a acceptable conversation.” It is harder to accompany everybody together, I agree, because there's so abundant misinformation out there. Bodies are so bound into their views, and they've had so abundant acknowledging advice because of the way the account gets presented today.
Are you blaming the media? I'm aloof curious, is it the media's fault? Is it Facebook's fault? Or are bodies aloof application these tools, you could say it's absolutely absorbing that the U.S. congenital all these amusing media tools. and they become weaponized by Russia. They're application things we invented. I do anticipate these bodies never anticipation of these after-effects in the aboriginal place.
No, I absolutely agree.
I anticipate they absolutely don't. I had a chat aback Facebook went live, and I kept saying, "Well someone's activity to annihilate someone," and a lot of their admiral were like, "Kara, you're so cynical." I was like, "What? I'm sorry, bodies are awful." That's my experience. What was absorbing is, why doesn't it action to them? Or maybe the penny's bottomward now with all these aldermanic investigations. Afresh I appetite to get aback into the affair of gender, because it's the aforementioned thing. It never occurs what happens in Silicon Valley, particularly.
It's an acknowledgment alcove itself. Breadth you go to all these altered events, it's all the aforementioned people, and they're talking about the things that bulk to them, which is altered than what affairs to the blow of the world. It's a absolute alone community. It's not that abounding bodies who access a lot of things, and afresh it's a lot of bodies who are aggravating to accomplish those bodies happy, because there's so abundant abundance and ability concentrated in so few bodies that's it has adulterated the amusing mechanisms which would accomplish bodies acquire what abroad is activity on.
I do, though. It's fascinating, because I acquisition them aboveboard optimistic. I don't anticipate they necessarily ... It's not, because I will acquire conversations, I about acquire they acquire this isn't accident or that it's not their fault. It's array of, I alarm them accessible wounds. They're like, "Oh, we feel bad this happened." I'm like, "Yeah but you fabricated it." You apperceive what I mean? Which is an absorbing thing. What is that ... Breadth are we afresh in Silicon Valley on this issue? And afresh in the abutting section, we'll allocution about Project Include.
I anticipate it's hard, because as you said bodies don't feel accountability, so afresh they don't feel any affectionate of albatross to apple-pie it up. I don't know. I don't acquire that abundant achievement for ... Maybe the aldermanic hearings will advance bodies a little bit more. Maybe, but bodies still use the products, right? There are still bodies who are application Uber, who are application Facebook. You apperceive that they're affairs every bit of advice they can, and they're announcement to you based on aggregate that you've done, but it doesn't anticipate bodies from application it.
I anticipate bodies acquire gotten absolutely absorbed and absolutely angry in to these products. The achievement is that they'll fix these products, that they'll displace their cultures, that they'll accompany in bodies at academy levels who acquire altered perspective, not aloof gender but chase and age and animal acclimatization and immigrant status, all these altered aspects that are altered from who's currently active things. But it's super-slow, bodies aren't tracking it, and it doesn't assume to acquire an appulse on product.
So you feel absolute about them?
I feel absolute about these new companies. Project Include, this nonprofit I started with seven added women to try to advance for change in teach, there are these early-stage startups CEOs who get it. They're like, "I'm accomplishing it because it's the appropriate affair to do. I'm accomplishing it because I appetite a bigger product. I'm accomplishing it because I appetite to recruit bodies in 15 years, aback 75 percent of the citizenry is either changeable or nonbinary or underrepresented actuality of color.”
I apperceive this is breadth I acquire to go, and I'm aflame about it, because aback I go to assignment and I see bodies alive calm and they assume blessed and they feel included and they feel like they belong, it makes my day. These are the bodies I anticipate who are activity to booty tech into the appropriate direction. I anticipate this admiration to be the abutting Mark Zuckerberg, this admiration to acquire the abutting Facebook is abundantly toxic, and we acquire to move accomplished that.
Talk about Project Accommodate and what you're accomplishing and what you hope, because I acquisition it's fascinating, because you assume to acquire a abundant added hopeful ... accustomed all you've been through, than I do. I don't. I don't anticipate bodies ... change.
I don't accusation you. Yeah, I don't apperceive that bodies can change, but I anticipate the bodies who are in allegation can change, and I achievement that happens. I think, I assumption it was in the end of 2015, I started affair with some people, and I end up affair with a few folks, including Erica Joy Baker and Tracy Chou. We concluded up talking about like, "Okay, everybody now is talking about the problem. How do we absolutely fix it?" We're seeing all these unconscious-bias training, or I'm activity to go recruit at this appointment for women, and afresh I'm activity to allocution about it in the press, and afresh I'm done. We're like, "This is all so terrible. It's absolutely embarrassing. How can we advice and accord bodies what they allegation to absolutely change?"
The eight of us got together, and we spent several months putting calm 87 recommendations, alignment them into altered categories. Our bulk ethics were absolute consistent, absolute accessible to appear up with. I anticipate they still authority accurate today, two years later. One, you allegation to accomplish abiding that you're including everyone. There are so abounding efforts, and it's super-frustrating to us to see all these efforts about gender. “I'm activity to accommodate some women and afresh everybody can feel good.” All the women on my aggregation feel good, but I'm not analytic the problem, I'm aloof authoritative that in-group a little bit bigger, and afresh I'm blank all the people, and a lot of them acquire abundant worse problems, like are advised abundant added poorly, but I feel like I'm demography affliction of my daughter, because I acquire a babe and I'm activity to accomplish abiding the apple is acceptable for her aback she becomes old enough. That is the acumen I apprehend the best about from some of these common macho executives.
No, I get that. That drives me crazy, I acquire to acquaint you. What about your sons?
Yeah, what affectionate of apple do you appetite them to be in?
Yeah, it's funny because I bethink aback Donald Trump said that, the acknowledgment about pussy-grabbing, and afresh like, "Well, I acquire a daughter." I'm like, "Yeah, but you acquire a son, what about this?" Accepting a babe is not the acumen you should do it, it's because it's the, one, appropriate affair to do; two, a guy, whoever adolescent you have, it has to be cerebration of it. What's the point of it appropriate now? What are you doing? I do appetite to allocution about Kapor Capital, too, what you're doing.
We're advancing up with recommendations about allowance CEOs appear up with across-the-board plans, and afresh absolute plans, and afresh additionally barometer them. We acquire two programs. One is alleged Startup Include; one is alleged VC Include. Startup Accommodate works with startups, and mostly with the CEOs. We assignment with them to use surveys to bulk out what the demographics and affect are of all their employees. Afresh we accumulation them by altered underrepresented groups, and afresh see, "You acquire one accumulation that is atramentous about compensation. Let's anticipate of some agency to try to either brainwash them about what you're accomplishing that's fair, or accomplish your action added fair, or bulk out breadth you are." And accord absolute specific recommendations on how to be across-the-board and how to ... a lot it turns about hiring, like how to accompany bodies in to accomplish your teams diverse.
You and I talked about this, the dark hiring, aback we were on date at Code, the abstraction that there should be dark hire. It was one of your concepts.
Yeah, because you aloof see abstraction afterwards study, bodies are absolutely biased and they can't get out of it. They can't, they aloof can't do it. One of the women on Project Include, Laura Gomez, has a artefact breadth it helps with hiring application abstracts and analytics. She was cogent me the adventure about this woman who was dinged in an account process, but afresh aback she went through a dark hiring process, she had the best abstruse account out of anybody. They concluded up hiring her, and it was the bent that prevented her from actuality hired, because they affected she wasn't acceptable technically.
Right, right, because of lots of reasons. Also, there's this abstraction of fit, they use ... What's absolutely adamantine about this all, I think, if I absolutely acquire to anticipate about it, is that abnormally in tech, is they anticipate so able-bodied of themselves, and they're absolutely nicer people. It's not like a Wall Artery actuality with a stripper. That's easy, like, okay, I get you appealing quickly, or whatever, any of those industries that are acclaimed for added dude behavior — bad dude behavior, not dude behavior.
We use the appellation tech-bro, which is apparently hardly arbitrary to use, but it does assume to fit a lot of people, but that it's they don't feel that it's them. They're nice people, and yet the aforementioned after-effects happen, right? And afresh they don't appetite to face the actuality that maybe they're not ... They don't anytime appetite to accept that conceivably they still acquire the aforementioned problem, which is a adamantine botheration to accord with. Like in gender, I don't anticipate they advisedly don't appetite abundant tech skills, and yet that absolutely what happened. They use the appellation “fit” a lot, they use the appellation ... Lots of agreement they use.
I anticipate there are two things activity on. One, I anticipate there is a set of bodies that we were talking about earlier, this accumulation of bodies who absolutely anticipate that women and maybe atramentous and maybe Latin bodies and maybe added groups of bodies are absolutely not equal.
Then they basin and they cherry-pick science. Absolutely that's what Damore absolutely did, I think.
Yeah, and you acquire to lower the bar to accompany them in. Bodies use this awe-inspiring accent to explain it, because they don't absolutely appetite to say, "I anticipate women are not as acceptable as men," or, "I anticipate atramentous bodies are not as acceptable as white people."
They use the chat “standards” — "We acquire standards."
"We acquire standards."
They never accompany up standards with white men, and you apperceive a lot of brainless white men.
Oh my gosh.
It's fascinating, never ...
And they aloof accumulate accepting funded.
I know, exactly. But what's absorbing is the chat “standards” never comes up, except aback it has to do with putting a woman on a lath or whatever. I'm like, "I don't anticipate it's standards for the accumulation you’ve got there now ..."
Yeah, and in best cases you're adopting the bar to anticipate that actuality from advancing on board. I anticipate it's toxic. I anticipate the additional affair is, I do anticipate bodies absolutely appetite to acquire that tech is meritocracy and they are meritocratic.
Yes, they do.
And afresh aback you alarm out, like, "Well, why do you acquire no women in your adventure basic firm?" They become absolute defensive, and afresh they appear up with all these reasons.
Can't acquisition them.
Yep, can't acquisition ... Or, there's alone one that's qualified, and she doesn't appetite to assignment here.
Yeah, we tried.
Yeah.
We got a no.
Yeah.
They're not as acceptable at it.
“Pipeline.”
Pipeline.
There's no activity of them.
What is, to you, the problem?
I anticipate it's all of the above.
Yeah, absolutely a activity issue, no question.
There's absolutely a activity issue, but I anticipate added bodies would appear into it if there was a bigger abode to go, there were added role models, you could see a aisle in these companies. But also, there is a bigger activity than absolutely gets hired. You're not attractive adamantine abundant and you're not absolutely ...
Especially on boards, for abiding for boards.
Yeah.
Where I anticipate a lot of it starts.
Yeah. It was interesting, I was talking to somebody whose lath associates were like, "Oh, you know, we allegation to accompany added assortment to this board." He was talking to me and I'm like, "Then you allegation to acquaint him that he needs to get off the board." Like, "If he's not blessed that it's all white men on the board, afresh he needs to get off. He needs to footfall off and accompany somebody abroad on his aggregation or somebody, if he doesn't one then, somebody else." They appetite it all the ways, and they're not accommodating to absolutely do the adamantine assignment to accomplish it happen, right?
Right, because addition has to accord abroad something, essentially.
Those are the affectionate of things, and afresh we do a lot of evangelism, advocacy. But the bulk things are alive with the CEOs. We begin abundant CEOs who are absorbed and aflame and that we anticipate are leaders in tech. You know, Dustin Moskovitz, Jack Conte, bodies who we anticipate are accomplishing abundant things and additionally that added bodies will follow. Aback they're successful, they can be advocates for assortment and inclusion, and afresh get that tech flywheel going.
Are bodies accepting annoyed of the discussion? Because it feels like maybe they don't appetite to apprehend it anymore. I absolutely can feel that. I get it on things like, "Oh Kara, stop talking about ..."
Really?
Yeah.
I'm not accompany with those people.
Yeah, but they do.
I acquire you. I anticipate allotment of it, I anticipate bodies feel ...
You could see in their eyes, too.
Yeah, they feel a little bit like ...
Under siege.
Under siege, and afresh they don't apperceive what to do. They appetite to break the problem, but they absolutely don't appetite to do the work, so they aloof appetite it to go away. Why do you accumulate bringing it up?
Yeah, this adult problem.
Like, "Hey, we accursed this guy already, why aren't blessed with that?" Because you replaced him with somebody who looks aloof like him. That's why. Because you are ambience yourself up for that aforementioned problem. Why don't you aloof fix it? I anticipate it's partly, "Oh, I absolutely don't acquire there's a problem." It's partly, "I don't apperceive how to fix the problem, so I appetite to pretend there's no problem." Afresh it's partly like, "I'd rather allocution about commodity abroad that's added agitative than commodity that's activity to accompany me down."
Right, so with Kleiner, it was about a gender bigotry issue, but animal aggravation has gotten added of the focus. I do anticipate animal aggravation is pervasive, but beneath of a botheration than gender discrimination. You apperceive what I mean? Because I anticipate they do go duke in hand, and they're allotment of the aforementioned baneful tree, but animal harassment, a lot of bodies can go, "Oh, no, no, no." A lot of men do not like this, do not appetite this to appear in their company, etcetera. Best of the absolutely ambiguous bodies are arrangement — they do it in a blooming way. Best of the added annoying animal aggravation are these microaggressions, like, "Smile more. You should smile more," or, "Don't you attending pretty," which are like ...
"Go get the cookies," or "Take the notes."
Yeah, whatever, which are added about the gender bigotry affectionate of thing. That's the affair I anguish about, the bodies like, "Oh, we're activity to fix the animal aggravation issue," which I anticipate is apparently easier to fix than the added part, and avoid what I anticipate is the added ambiguous issue.
I don't know, because I apprehend about bodies adage that, "I'm not activity to accommodated with a woman one on one."
Yes, they do. Yeah, so no, that's absolutely ...
Yeah.
It's the Mike Pence thing.
Yeah, I don't apperceive if they're activity fix ...
I acquire to be able to ascendancy my ... I can't ascendancy myself, and accordingly I'm not activity to advice women anymore. That's the thing.
Right. Right, and that's ...
Why don't you aloof ascendancy yourself?
Yeah, and so why are all these women complaining, it aloof agency we're never activity to appoint a woman.
Right.
I don't know. I anticipate it's like, how do you aces which is the bigger problem? Afresh I anticipate the bigotry additionally ties to bodies who discriminate adjoin women are additionally acceptable to be acute adjoin bodies based on chase and age and all altered types of things, because they're angry to the actuality that looks absolutely like them. I don't know, it's all ugly.
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Second Life Marketplace - ~* PD *~ Kevin Hart - She wasn't ready | she wasn t ready memeYeah, so what do we do, Ellen?
I anticipate a big allotment of it is, I achievement this abutting bearing of workers, and I acquire they are abundant added abreast ... Like Tracy was maybe 26 or 28 aback she ... I anticipate she was 26 aback she created a database of ... a GitHub athenaeum for breadth are bodies in agreement of their engineering teams in demographics. At 26, I was absolutely clueless, I had no abstraction what was activity on. I anticipation aggregate was meritocratic and I was alive my hardest to get my way up.
So I anticipate that abutting bearing is abundant added aware. I'm acquisitive that bodies cogent their belief makes them alike added aware, so that they are attractive for the appropriate companies to join. That's these companies that are bodies who are absorbed in diversity, inclusion, who are alert and who are alteration and who are not demography the old admissions-committee archetypal of cultural fit and, "Do I appetite to be on a alike with you for 24 hours in a row?" as their guides. They're abutting these added companies that are application technology to accomplish dark admissions, who are application technology to accomplish abiding that achievement reviews are fair, and aloof adopting and experimenting to try to accomplish things better.
You're now at Kapor Capital, what are you accomplishing there?
I am arch assortment and admittance administrator at the Kapor Center, which is an affiliated nonprofit foundation. Afresh I additionally am a adventure accomplice at Kapor Capital. So I assignment with entrepreneurs, with founders, with CEOs, on authoritative their companies assorted and inclusive, and afresh I additionally attending at investments.
Do you anticipate that's catching? Because Mitch and Frieda are absolute ... this has been one of their things for abounding years.
Decades.
Decades, yeah.
It does assume like it's changing. We apprehend from adventure basic firms that are absorbed in adopting our founder's commitment, breadth founders accomplish to authoritative their companies assorted and inclusive, afore we will absolutely advance in them. They accomplish to accepting appulse and authoritative abiding that they're impacting ...
What is the commitment? How do you accomplish them do it?
We're not activity to say, "Oh, we're activity to bang you out," but they accompaniment that they appetite to accomplish their teams assorted and inclusive, they are signing up to participate in a set of workshops that we have, and administration information, and in alive with us on our altered initiatives to accomplish abiding that they understand, how do you address a cipher of conduct? How do you anatomy you values? What should you be cerebration about as you attending for an investor? To acquire this holistic appearance and absolute appearance of what admittance means?
What did you anticipate about the appropriateness pledge? I apperceive you're not activity ... I hated it. I hated it. Kara Swisher hated it.
I anticipate I airtight it in The New York Times.
Yeah, you did.
What did it do? Nothing.
Exactly.
It did absolutely nothing. It's addition apathetic assortment action that makes bodies feel acceptable about themselves but accomplishes nothing.
Nothing, right, exactly. If you, Ellen Pao, was god of Silicon Valley, which I anticipate would alarm a lot of people, what are the three things you would do? It sounds like a asinine catechism but it's not. What would you ...
I would aloof booty a ton of money. I anticipate if you could get, I don't know, maybe alike aloof $25 billion, and accord it to the smartest bodies of color, women of color, women, to invest, it would change the landscape. It's not activity to happen. The LPs, I don't apperceive breadth they are, but they've been absolutely bashful on these issues.
They have.
I've heard of one or two who acquire taken affair with the animal harassment, because as you say, that's a abundant easier one to draw a band at.
Oh, no, cipher brand that. Cipher brand boob -grabbing. No. Because that's actionable, too. Gender bigotry is abundant added difficult.
Yeah, and you don't feel acceptable about actuality in a aggregation with a harasser or advance in a close with a harasser. It's embarrassing. But I anticipate if you gave money to people, and they were able to advance it in the best companies and the best entrepreneurs and the best founders afterwards all this bent blind over them, you'd acquire a altered world.
And altered investors.
You'd acquire altered investors, you'd acquire altered founders, you'd acquire altered bodies succeeding. Instead of alone white men are accepting the money so alone white men succeed, and afresh it reinforces, "Oh, alone white men should be accepting money."
You beggarly they're aloof not bigger than us? Ellen, what? You can say no.
No.
No?
No.
So, are you hopeful for what's accident now, because they feel ... I'm not, because I aloof anticipate that they're activity to cardboard it over.
I anticipate in the aftermost year, the bulk of change we've apparent in people's perceptions has been immense.
Yes, acknowledge you, Uber.
So that makes me ... yeah.
No, really, in a lot of ways. Because I anticipate it ...
Thank you, Susan Fowler.
Yes, of course. But I anticipate I wrote a allotment called, “Thank you, Susan Fowler,” but I anticipate it's not aloof that, it's that bodies can't attending away. It's the apotheosis of all of it. It seemed like aggregate drained bottomward into Uber, and there it was, and it's claret and it's ...
It afflicted people's framework for cerebration about tech companies.
But I achievement it's not anybody goes, "Oh, it's aloof Uber."
Right, and I don't anticipate so. I anticipate afresh you saw all these added companies, and it's been affectionate of a storm of ...
When does that stop? Do you brainstorm this stopping?
It doesn't assume to be. I anticipate there's still a lot of cleanup. As you said, it is not aloof Uber. They may be the worst, potentially, but there are abounding added companies that acquire been in this baneful tech culture. I anticipate that gives me achievement that bodies will absolutely accomplish the changes. Aback I allocution to bodies who are now speaking up, and they're accomplishing little things that are authoritative a difference. I talked to bodies who are speaking up and activity public, and afresh you acquire the technology, through Medium and Twitter, to ability so abounding bodies in your own voice, without, no offense, accepting to go through the press, accepting that ...
I know, it's the media's fault, Ellen.
It's not, but it is different. You feel a lot added control. To feel like you acquire ascendancy over your adventure if you're activity to do and say commodity sensitive. I anticipate that makes a huge difference, and I'm hopeful. But I accede with you, there are not break that it's changing. We acquire a ton of assignment to do, we acquire aloof afflicted the attributes of bodies assertive the botheration or not.
Do you anguish because of the beyond culture, and with Trump in the White House and the actuality that spews out of his Twitter beck every moment?
I anticipate that's a huge problem, and it's authoritative bodies who contrarily would be quiet allege up, but in some agency it is good. You apprehend that person, you blaze them. They're out. Get out. I anticipate it additionally has activated a lot of people. Breadth they feel like, "Oh, I aloof can't be quiet anymore, because attending what happens."
Right, additionally I anticipate a lot of times bodies get beat and are in a abiding accompaniment of acerbity and it creates intolerance, too. You apperceive what I mean? Like that actuality at Berkeley, I'm like, "Just let the guy talk," I apperceive he's gross, but let's aloof ...
I feel a little bit different.
I know, bodies are like, "Oh, I'm actuality damaged by it." I'm like, "You can booty it."
But I feel like this is my home.
I know.
This is my community. Aback the kids are ... You know, some kids are apparently like 14, 16, who are activity to college, to acquire that in your association abject doesn't feel good.
No, I know.
I apperceive it's a breastwork of chargeless accent over at Berkeley, it's adamantine but ...
I know, but at the aforementioned time, it's like, afresh they appear at you. You accord them an alibi to appear at you if you don't let them ...
But they acquire platforms.
I know, but you know. You know.
Yeah. That's added complicated ...
They don't acquire to be nice, we do. You apperceive what I mean?
Yeah.
I apperceive it sounds ... It's unfair. So, aftermost question, what is your ambition with this book? Do you acquire a goal, or you aloof acquainted like typing?
No. One big affair ... God no, about myself for so abounding pages, no, that was not the goal. I anticipate a lot of it was there are so abounding bodies who are so supportive, and afresh they affiliated with altered genitalia of my story, and I basic to accord them a accomplished unsmeared version. I additionally basic to accomplish bodies feel absolute about tech. There are so abounding acceptable things about tech.
It's a shockingly absolute book.
Yeah, I could not acquire accounting it a few years ago.
She's affectionate of pissed. She's in a pissed ...
Yeah, able-bodied she wrote fast. She didn't acquire time.
That book — she's pissed. She was on the date at Cipher this year, and she got on the stage, I'm like, "You're in trouble, you're pissed, because they're activity to not like you actuality pissed” affectionate of stuff.
But she went through.
Yeah, yeah, that's true.
There are so abounding acceptable things about tech. There are so abounding alarming products, and there are so abounding things that can change the world. I basic to accomplish abiding that bodies backward in it. That they don't booty a attending at it, see it's appealing toxic, and maybe I should go do commodity else. We allegation bodies to appear in, and we allegation bodies to succeed. I'm acquisitive to advice them by compassionate what's activity on about them, by giving them some tips, and afresh by assuming the absolute ancillary of it.
Yeah, it's array of the attitude about capitalism — it's the affliction arrangement ever, except for all the rest. The acreage is like that, it's the affliction arrangement ever, except for all the rest.
Yeah, but you've enjoyed abundant of it, right?
I have. At some point, I'm like, "Are you kidding?"
You see the system, and it's so bad, and it's so adamantine to change ...
No, mostly it's that they're so not accessible to pin down, I guess, because they are nice. It's not like you're ambidextrous with aloof apace assholes.
Who are lying to you, and ...
Right. It's array of like, at Uber, definitely, it's like, "Okay, I got them. I got what they are." But it's added insidious, because it's so ...
Yeah, the VCs are all so nice. I mean, that's their job.
Yeah, you apperceive what I mean? Afresh you're like, "They don't alike understand." It doesn't alike action to them ... And afresh you acquire to be mad to get their attention, and it does assignment aback you're mad at them.
That's tiring, so tiring.
It's tiring. It's exhausting. So, aftermost catechism — what is the affair you ...
I anticipation the added one was the aftermost question.
What? No, this is my aftermost question. You're activity to acquire to answer. It's my authority actuality at Recode. What is a affair that you anticipate bodies don't get about you? Ellen Pao is what?
I don't know. I think, like, you know, I'm aloof aggravating to do the appropriate thing.
You are absolutely absolute funny. I anticipate bodies don't get that.
Maybe, yeah. I met somebody, like, "Oh my God, you're so balmy and friendly." It's like, "Oh, sorry. I didn't beggarly to."
Yeah, yeah. Well, you know, you're inscrutable, Ellen. No, no. You've become an iconic thing, and accordingly you become a animation of yourself apparently in some way.
Also the PR. That huge PR attack didn't help.
Yeah, it's apparently true. Anyway, Ellen Pao's new book is “Reset.” Is it activity to become a cine with Shonda Rhimes? Is that why you were talking to Shonda? I'm interviewing her abutting week.
No. I ran into her at a conference, and afresh I ran into her at TED, and we aloof ...
Chatted.
... chatted and actuality like that. I adulation her, though. I anticipate she's awesome.
I'm aflame to account her. I'm-super excited. I'm a huge fan.
Yeah, she's ...
She's powerhouse. Is it activity to become a movie, or is it activity anywhere else?
We'll see, maybe you can do a cameo.
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