Jul
27
Venture Capital’s Secret Code Is Being Tested by Harassment Scandals
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Industry’s clubby culture leaves some misbehavior unpunished
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Investors seek ways to avoid backing the next serial harasser
Reference checks in Silicon Valley these days are likely to start with a new question: “Are you under NDA?”
Venture capitalists and their backers are trying to find new ways to talk to each other and gather information after accounts of mistreatment from several women have shaken the industry. Not wanting to fund the next serial sexual harasser, investors in VC funds are more closely scrutinizing the character of investing partners and asking pointed questions to try to unearth what exactly they’re not being told…
Venture Capital’s Secret Code Is Being Tested by Harassment Scandals
