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Former Reddit CEO Ellen Pao claims Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes is being prosecuted because she's a woman (archive.is)
posted 4 years ago by altmehere 4 years ago by altmehere +85 / -0
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– altmehere [S] 34 points 4 years ago +34 / -0

She points to Adam Neumann, who drove WeWork into the ground; former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick, who resigned after a sexual harassment scandal; and Juul's Kevin Burns, who stepped down amid questions over the company's role in stoking the youth vaping epidemic.

Being incompetent is not illegal. Pao should know; she's not behind bars, after all. All of these things are either not illegal, not illegal if the CEO didn't know, or difficult to prove.

The allegations against Elizabeth Holmes are clear-cut.

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– Ahaus667 20 points 4 years ago +20 / -0

Wait, so we should prosecute the former Yahoo CEO who tanked the stock and flew off in her golden parachute?

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– DemolitionsPanda 6 points 4 years ago +6 / -0

She didn't just tank the stock. She shuttered the search engine (ie the core competency of Yahoo) and then spent the multi-billion dollar cash reserve on long-shot start-ups, hoping to find the next new Facebook.

She would have done better by buying scratch lottery tickets.

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– LauriThorne 11 points 4 years ago +11 / -0

The Juul thing doesn't even fit with the others.

He stepped down because some kids like his product before they're legally allowed to.

Wut.

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– BidenLikesMiners 3 points 4 years ago +3 / -0

some kids like his product before they're legally allowed to.

Wut.

he had to step down because theyre not allowed to market those products to kids.

They did that.

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– LauriThorne 2 points 4 years ago +2 / -0

I guess we're just making shit up now.

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– ArtemisFoul 8 points 4 years ago +8 / -0

To be fair, IIRC the Neumann thing wasn't just about "driving WeWork into the ground", he basically defrauded his own company and its stockholders. I can't remember if what he did was ever actually ruled illegal by a court, but it was definitely shady as hell, he did stuff like take out huge loans from the company at negligible interest and then using the money to buy property and lease it back to the company at a vastly higher rate - so he'd basically funnel money out of the company and into his own pockets.

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– deleted 21 points 4 years ago +21 / -0
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– bangbus 2 points 4 years ago +2 / -0

And they defrauded the federal government by misrepresenting their capabilities. Not to mention numerous counts of securities fraud.

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– GiveThemNothing 14 points 4 years ago +14 / -0

Feminist orthodoxy in one sentence: She has a cunt -> She is the victim.

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– deleted 13 points 4 years ago +13 / -0
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– AlfredicEnglishRules 6 points 4 years ago +6 / -0

Well yeah, if the bad ideas had been shown to the horse he would have yelled nay.

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– bangbus 4 points 4 years ago +4 / -0

If she was a man she wouldn’t be prosecuted because every asshole on Earth wouldn’t have tripped over themselves to fund her to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars without due diligence and Theranos wouldn’t have been able to pull of the heist on the pharmacy chain and Uncle Sugar. The scam literally only worked because she’s a woman.

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– censorthisss 11 points 4 years ago +11 / -0

Is there going to be a jury trial? If so I guarantee she walks.

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– Kaarous 10 points 4 years ago +10 / -0

Ellen Pao is a ChiCom cunt who shouldn't be allowed in this country's borders.

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– Devidose 3 points 4 years ago +3 / -0

Ellen Pao literally posted a home drive url when trying to link a picture one time. On Reddit. That's parody levels of tech illiteracy yet she was in charge of "the front page of the Internet".

Might have been the url to an email attachment. Regardless it was never going to work and she showed she had fuck all awareness of computers doing that.

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– MegoThor 9 points 4 years ago +9 / -0

What does Ellen Pao know about being a woman?

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– NotAGlowy 1 point 4 years ago +1 / -0

Trans women are women

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– CarmenOfSandiego 2 points 4 years ago +2 / -0

Yet you distinguish them with a prefix.

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– rablecti 8 points 4 years ago +8 / -0

She's a scammer who was selling as product as ready for prime time while in reality it had little more reliability than a lab mock up. Lock her up.

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– ArtemisFoul 8 points 4 years ago +8 / -0

Ellen Pao is fucking retarded, remember her hot takes about how employers should investigate their employees to find out if they're incels and fire them? "Have sex or lose your job, chud"

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– Devidose 3 points 4 years ago +3 / -0

Remember when she tried linking to a picture on her c drive?

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– Tourgen 7 points 4 years ago +7 / -0

Women in power or leadership, never ever. Responsibility is not something they are capable of shouldering at this level.

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– yeldarb1983 6 points 4 years ago +6 / -0

Not entirely true. there are a few exceptions, like Queen Victoria(Queen Elizabeth I? ) who raised the British Empire to its peak.

But yeah, if you can't be held responsible for your actions, you can't be given responsibility for other people's lives.

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– alucard13mmfmj 3 points 4 years ago +3 / -0

For every great woman, there is 10 great man... i would say.

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– yeldarb1983 1 point 4 years ago +1 / -0

Could be. I can't say. I will say let them compete like everybody else and stop hiring them just because hiring people with vaginas makes you look good. It only undermines the legitimately good ones in the eyes of their coworkers, underlings, and the public at large.

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– Santa_Liqueur 7 points 4 years ago +7 / -0

She was brought in to corporatize and ratfuck Reddit, then ejected once the damage was done. She’s nothing but a tool.

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– Devidose 2 points 4 years ago +2 / -0

There's a name for that concept which is "the glass cliff".

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– BizzLostHisPassword 7 points 4 years ago +7 / -0

Yes, that's exactly it. Now serve me some Chow Mein you ping pong chink slut.

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– Decrixxx 3 points 4 years ago +3 / -0

everytime

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– BidenLikesMiners 3 points 4 years ago +3 / -0

Ellen pao: The ULTIMATE diversity hire

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– deleted 2 points 4 years ago +2 / -0

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