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She went on to create: “Facebook Names Sheryl Sandberg Chief Operating Officer,” Facebook Newsroom, March 4, 2008, https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2008/03/facebook-names-sheryl-sandberg-chief-operating-officer.
“I think the thing”: Wojcicki, interview by author, Bloomberg, Nov. 14, 2016.
“something out of a rebooted soap opera”: Reed Albergotti, “Google Reckoning with History of Interoffice Romance by Top Execs,” The Information, Nov. 29, 2017, https://www.theinformation.com/google-reckoning-with-history-of-interoffice-romance-by-top-execs.
In the long, hot summer: Caroline Graham, “The £5.4 Billion Google Love Rat: How Boss, 58, of Internet Giant Resisting Online Porn Crackdown Has a String of Exotic Lovers in His ‘Open Marriage’ . . . but DOESN’T Want You to Know About It,” Daily Mail, July 20, 2013, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2371719/Googles-Eric-Schmidts-open-marriage-string-exotic-lovers.html.
Schmidt’s New York apartment: Sam Biddle, “Google Boss Enjoys $15 Mil Manhattan Sex Penthouse,” Valleywag, July 25, 2013, http://valleywag.gawker.com/google-boss-enjoys-15-mil-manhattan-sex-penthouse-909299764.
“the most daring CEO”: Ryan Chittum, “Fast Company’s Daring 23andMe Cover,” Columbia Journalism Review, Nov. 23, 2013, http://archives.cjr.org/the_audit/fast_companys_daring_23andme_c.php.
Longtime chief legal counsel: Albergotti, “Google Reckoning with History of Interoffice Romance by Top Execs.”
Executives, she tweeted: Shawn Paul Wood, “Google Engineer Accused of Sexual Harassment Allegedly Does Nothing,” Adweek, March 9, 2015, http://www.adweek.com/digital/google-engineer-accused-of-sexual-harassment-allegedly-does-nothing.
Andy Rubin, the mastermind: Reed Albergotti, “Android’s Andy Rubin Left Google After Inquiry Found Inappropriate Relationship,” The Information, Nov. 28, 2017, https://www.theinformation.com/androids-andy-rubin-left-google-after-inquiry-found-inappropriate-relationship.
In 2016, longtime Google executive: Barry Schwartz, “Amit Singhal, The Head of Google Search, to Leave the Company for Philanthropic Purposes,” Search Engine Land, Feb. 3, 2016, https://searchengineland.com/amit-singhal-the-head-of-google-search-to-leave-the-company-for-philanthropic-purposes-241707.
Google reported numbers: “Google Diversity,” Google, 2017.
“The department has received”: Sam Levin, “Google Accused of ‘Extreme’ Gender Pay Discrimination by US Labor Department,” Guardian, April 7, 2017, https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/apr/07/google-pay-disparities-women-labor-department-lawsuit.
The following September: Larson, “Google Sued for Allegedly Paying Women Less Than Male Peers.”
“Job levels and promotions”: Ibid.
In it, Damore argued: Mike Cernovich, “Full James Damore Memo—Uncensored Memo with Charts and Cites,” Medium, Aug. 8, 2017, https://medium.com/@Cernovich/full-james-damore-memo-uncensored-memo-with-charts-and-cites-339f3d2d05f.
though Damore’s citations, some from Wikipedia: Megan Molteni and Adam Rogers, “The Actual Science of James Damore’s Google Memo,” Wired, Aug. 15, 2017, https://www.wired.com/story/the-pernicious-science-of-james-damores-google-memo.
Another site that came: Toni Airaksinen, “Libertarian Site Suffers DDoS Attack After Supporting Google Worker,” PJ Media, Aug. 9, 2017, https://pjmedia.com/trending/2017/08/09/libertarian-site-suffers-ddos-attack-after-supporting-google-worker.
The mainstream media quickly picked up: Jack Nicas and Yoree Koh, “At Google, Memo on Gender and Diversity Sparks Firestorm,” Wall Street Journal, Aug. 9, 2017, https://www.wsj.com/articles/memo-sparks-firestorm-at-google-1502246996.
Pichai issued a harshly worded rebuke: Sundar Pichai, “Note to Employees from CEO Sundar Pichai,” Google, Aug. 8, 2017, https://www.blog.google/topics/diversity/note-employees-ceo-sundar-pichai.
calling for Pichai’s resignation: David Brooks, “Sundar Pichai Should Resign as Google’s C.E.O.,” New York Times, Aug. 11, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/11/opinion/sundar-pichai-google-memo-diversity.html.
“It’s really a shame”: James Damore, “Fired Google Engineer Says Company Executives Smeared Him,” interview by author, Bloomberg, Aug. 9, 2017, video, 3:51, https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2017-08-10/fired-google-engineer-says-company-smeared-him-video.
there is a vast body of research: Brian A. Nosek et al., “National Differences in Gender-Science Stereotypes Predict National Sex Differences in Science and Math Achievement,” PNAS 106, no. 26 (2009): 10593–97, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0809921106.
One of the most insightful: Yonatan Zunger, “So, About This Googler’s Manifesto,” Medium, Aug. 5, 2017, https://medium.com/@yonatanzunger/so-about-this-googlers-manifesto-1e3773ed1788.
“What is news is that this employee”: Erica Joy Baker, “I Am Disappointed but Unsurprised . . .” Medium, Aug. 5, 2017, https://medium.com/projectinclude/i-am-disappointed-but-unsurprised-by-the-news-that-an-anti-diversity-sexist-racist-manifesto-is-5fdafbe19352.
“almost class action”: Megan Smith, “Former U.S. CTO on Silicon Valley’s Diversity Battle,” interview by author, Bloomberg, Aug. 7, 2017, video, 7:09, https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2017-08-07/ex-u-s-cto-on-silicon-valley-s-diversity-battle-video.
“We know when we work with dudes”: Cate Huston, “We Know Who He Is,” Medium, Aug. 6, 2017, https://medium.com/@catehstn/we-know-who-he-is-596fdd93d7c2.
“I’ve had my abilities”: Susan Wojcicki, “Read YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki’s Response to the Controversial Google Anti-diversity Memo,” Fortune, Aug. 9, 2017, http://fortune.com/2017/08/09/google-diversity-memo-wojcicki.
Forbes recently ranked her: “The World’s Most Powerful Women In 2016,” Forbes, Jun. 6, 2016, https://www.forbes.com/sites/alixmcnamara/2016/06/06/the-worlds-most-powerful-women-in-2016/#54f8fb971c83.
“the cold weather”: Susan Wojcicki (@SusanWojcicki), “Super cold weather @Davos2016 is it’s easy to store breast milk. No freezer required. #moms.” Twitter post, Jan. 22, 2016, https://twitter.com/susanwojcicki/status/690467560396029952.
“When I’m in the office”: Susan Wojcicki, interview by author, Bloomberg, Nov. 14, 2016, video, 23:36, https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2016-11-14/susan-wojcicki-bloomberg-studio-1-0-11-13.
she flourished at Google: Claire Cain Miller, “In Google’s Inner Circle, a Falling Number of Women,” New York Times, Aug. 22, 2012, http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/23/technology/in-googles-inner-circle-a-falling-number-of-women.html.
“New Yahoo CEO Marissa”: Jenna Goudreau, “New Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer Is Pregnant. Does It Matter?,” Forbes, July 17, 2012, https://www.forbes.com/sites/jennagoudreau/2012/07/17/new-yahoo-ceo-marissa-mayer-is-pregnant-does-it-matter/#7fd59ae9fa00.
“The Pregnant CEO”: LearnVest, “The Pregnant CEO: Should You Hate Marissa Mayer?,” Forbes, July 19, 2012, https://www.forbes.com/sites/learnvest/2012/07/19/the-pregnant-ceo-should-you-hate-marissa-mayer/#5df5db293d14.
“Marissa Mayer’s Brief Maternity Leave”: Katherine Reynolds Lewis, “Marissa Mayer’s Brief Maternity Leave: Progress or Workaholism?,” Fortune, Oct. 2, 2012, http://fortune.com/2012/10/02/marissa-mayers-brief-maternity-leave-progress-or-workaholism.
One blogger quipped: Penelope Trunk, “Marissa Mayer Becomes CEO of Yahoo and Proves Women Cannot Have It All,” blog.penelopetrunk.com, July 17, 2012, http://blog.penelopetrunk.com/2012/07/17/marissa-mayer-becomes-ceo-of-yahoo-and-proves-women-cannot-have-it-all.
By that point, Mayer had been leading: Marissa Mayer, “Marissa’s Tumblr,” https://marissamayr.tumblr.com.
on the wrong side of history: Richard Branson and Sheryl Sandberg, “Sheryl Sandberg and Richard Branson: Balancing Act (04/24),” interview by author, Bloomberg, April 23, 2015, video, 20:53, https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2015-04-25/sheryl-sandberg-richard-branson-balancing-act-04-24-.
Under her direction, Facebook’s revenues: Matt
Rosoff, “Look at How Much Sheryl Sandberg Has Done for Facebook,” Business Insider, Mar. 23, 2016, http://www.businessinsider.com/sheryl-sandberg-8-years-at-facebook-2016-3.
not to “lean back”: Sheryl Sandberg, “Why We Have Too Few Women Leaders,” TED talk, Dec. 21, 2010, video, 14:58, https://www.ted.com/talks/sheryl_sandberg_why_we_have_too_few_women_leaders.
“Although couched in terms”: Anne-Marie Slaughter, “Why Women Still Can’t Have It All,” Atlantic, July/Aug. 2012, https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/07/why-women-still-cant-have-it-all/309020.
“Why I hate Sheryl”: Rosa Brooks, “Recline, Don’t ‘Lean In’ (Why I Hate Sheryl Sandberg),” Washington Post, Feb. 25, 2014, https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/she-the-people/wp/2014/02/25/recline-dont-lean-in-why-i-hate-sheryl-sandberg/?utm_term=.d6cbcc2012c1.
“The False Promise”: Bryce Covert, “Lean In, Trickle Down: The False Promise of Sheryl Sandberg’s Theory of Change,” Forbes, Feb. 25, 2013, https://www.forbes.com/sites/brycecovert/2013/02/25/lean-in-trickle-down-the-false-promise-of-sheryl-sandbergs-theory-of-change/#469c7d5c4256.
“Why I Won’t Lean In”: Vanessa Garcia, “Why I Won’t Lean In,” Huffington Post, July 19, 2013, https://www.huffingtonpost.com/vanessa-garcia/why-i-wont-lean-in_b_3586527.html.
“Mayer and Sandberg”: Joanne Bamberger, “The New Mommy Wars,” USA Today, Feb. 5, 2013, https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2013/02/25/the-new-mommy-wars-column/1947589.
“blaming other women”: Maureen Dowd, “Pompom Girl for Feminism,” New York Times, Feb. 23, 2013, http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/24/opinion/sunday/dowd-pompom-girl-for-feminism.html.
The Lean In backlash: Anna Holmes, “Maybe You Should Read the Book: The Sheryl Sandberg Backlash,” New Yorker, March 4, 2013, https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/maybe-you-should-read-the-book-the-sheryl-sandberg-backlash.
CHAPTER 4: DINNER WITH WOMEN ENGINEERS
Fowler joined Uber: Susan J. Fowler, “Reflecting on One Very, Very Strange Year at Uber,” www.susanjfowler.com, Feb. 19, 2017, https://www.susanjfowler.com/blog/2017/2/19/reflecting-on-one-very-strange-year-at-uber.
Fowler did not have the typical: Susan J. Fowler, “Twenty Books That Shaped My Unconventional Life,” www.susanjfowler.com, Aug. 17, 2016, https://www.susanjfowler.com/blog/2016/8/15/20-unconventional-books-that-changed-my-life.
“He was trying to stay”: Fowler, “Reflecting on One Very, Very Strange Year at Uber.”
claimed that a “smear campaign”: Susan Fowler, “Research for the smear campaign has begun. If you are contacted by anyone asking for personal and intimate info about me, please report asap,” Twitter post, Feb. 24, 2017, https://twitter.com/susanthesquark/status/835193441814392833.
Uber denied being behind: Sarah Buhr, “Uber Says It’s ‘Absolutely Not’ Behind a Smear Campaign Against Ex-employee Susan Fowler Rigetti,” TechCrunch, Feb. 24, 2017, https://techcrunch.com/2017/02/24/uber-says-its-absolutely-not-behind-a-smear-campaign-against-ex-employee-susan-fowler-rigetti.
“Yeah, we call that Boob-er”: Mickey Rapkin, “Uber Cab Confessions,” GQ, Feb. 27, 2014, https://www.gq.com/story/uber-cab-confessions.
video of Kalanick: Eric Newcomer, “In Video, Uber CEO Argues with Driver over Falling Fares,” Bloomberg, Feb. 28, 2017, https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-02-28/in-video-uber-ceo-argues-with-driver-over-falling-fares.
Uber’s new head of engineering: Kara Swisher, “Uber’s SVP of Engineering Is Out After He Did Not Disclose He Left Google in a Dispute over a Sexual Harassment Allegation,” Recode, Feb. 27, 2017, https://www.recode.net/2017/2/27/14745360/amit-singhal-google-uber.
A story broke: Amir Efrati, “Uber Group’s Visit to Seoul Escort Bar Sparked HR Complaint,” The Information, March 24, 2017, https://www.theinformation.com/uber-groups-visit-to-seoul-escort-bar-sparked-hr-complaint.
“Why Is Silicon Valley So Awful to Women?”: Liza Mundy, “Why Is Silicon Valley So Awful to Women?,” Atlantic, April 2017, https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/04/why-is-silicon-valley-so-awful-to-women/517788.
she attended the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women: Sheryl Sandberg et al., “GHC 2013 Keynote Sheryl Sandberg, Maria Klawe, Telle Whitney,” Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, Nov. 9, 2013, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=362AygQGMGk.
Chou wrote a Medium essay: Tracy Chou, “Where Are the Numbers?,” Medium, Oct. 11, 2013, https://medium.com/@triketora/where-are-the-numbers-cb997a57252.
The “Elephant in the Valley” study: Trae Vassallo et al., “The Elephant in the Valley,” www.elephantinthevalley.com, 2017, https://www.elephantinthevalley.com.
“If I was 20 years younger”: Ibid.
According to the stories: Ibid.
Lydia Fernandez has seen the tech industry: Fernandez, interview by Helena Price, www.techiesproject.com, Feb. 11, 2016, http://www.techiesproject.com/lydia-fernandez.
software community GitHub: Josh Terrell et al., “Gender Differences and Bias in Open Source: Pull Request Acceptance of Women Versus Men,” Peer J, July 26, 2016, https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj-cs.111.
One former engineer at Facebook: Deepa Seetharaman, “Facebook’s Female Engineers Claim Gender Bias,” Wall Street Journal, May 2, 2017, https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebooks-female-engineers-claim-gender-bias-1493737116.
That reminded her of: Cedric L. Alexander, “Three Days in July: Where Do We Go from Here?,” CNN, July 11, 2016, http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/11/opinions/three-days-in-july-cedric-alexander/index.html.
“It’s not as ‘good’ as being”: Tracy Chou, “The Uncomfortable State of Being Asian in Tech,” Medium, Oct. 19, 2015, https://medium.com/little-thoughts/the-uncomfortable-state-of-being-asian-in-tech-ab7db446c55b.
“abhorrent and against everything”: Eric Newcomer, “Uber Investigating Sexual Discrimination Claims by Ex-engineer,” Bloomberg, Feb. 20, 2017, https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-02-20/uber-investigating-sexual-discrimination-claims-by-ex-engineer.
video was leaked: Newcomer, “In Video, Uber CEO Argues with Driver over Falling Fares.”
the company would stop hiring “brilliant jerks”: Mike Isaac, “Inside Uber’s Aggressive, Unrestrained Workplace Culture,” New York Times, Feb. 22, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/22/technology/uber-workplace-culture.html.
“What has driven Uber”: Mike Isaac, “Uber Releases Diversity Report and Repudiates Its ‘Hard-Charging Attitude,’” New York Times, March 28, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/28/technology/uber-scandal-diversity-report.html.
“You better read this”: Kara Swisher and Johana Bhuiyan, “Uber CEO Kalanick Advised Employees on Sex Rules for a Company Celebration in 2013 ‘Miami Letter,’” Recode, June 8, 2017, https://www.recode.net/2017/6/8/15765514/2013-miami-letter-uber-ceo-kalanick-employees-sex-rules-company-celebration.
sexually assaulting his passenger: Eric Newcomer, “Uber Workplace Probe Extends to Handling of India Rape Case,” Bloomberg, June 7, 2017, https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-07/uber-workplace-probe-extends-to-handling-of-india-rape-case.
An Uber employee who oversaw operations: Kara Swisher and Johana Bhuiyan, “How Being ‘Coin-Operated’ at Uber Led to a Top Exec Obtaining the Medical Records of a Rape Victim in India,” Recode, June 11, 2017., https://www.recode.net/2017/6/11/15758818/uber-travis-kalanick-eric-alexander-india-rape-medical-records.
Uber finally revealed the results: Mike Isaac, “Uber Fires 20 Amid Investigation into Workplace Culture,” New York Times, June 6, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/06/technology/uber-fired.html.
Uber’s board adopted: “Uber Report: Eric Holder’s Recommendations for Change,” New York Times, June 13, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/13/technology/uber-report-eric-holders-recommendations-for-change.html.
his own “selfish ends”: Mike Isaac, “Uber Investor Sues Travis Kalanick for Fraud,”
New York Times, Aug. 10, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/10/technology/travis-kalanick-uber-lawsuit-benchmark-capital.html.
A Kalanick spokesperson: Ibid.
sued Uber (while she was still employed): Heather Somerville, “Three Women Sue Uber in San Francisco Claiming Unequal Pay, Benefits,” Reuters, Oct. 25, 2017, https://www.reuters.com/article/us-uber-lawsuit/three-women-sue-uber-in-san-francisco-claiming-unequal-pay-benefits-idUSKBN1CU2Z1.
CHAPTER 5: SUPERHEROES AND SUPERJERKS: THE ROLE OF THE VENTURE CAPITALISTS
Moritz stepped back: D. D. Gutenplan, “Behind Oxford Donation, a Personal Story,” New York Times, July 15, 2012, http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/16/world/europe/16iht-educside16.html.
“We think about it a lot”: Michael Moritz, “Sir Michael Moritz: Studio 1.0 (Full Show 12/02),” interview by author, Bloomberg, Dec. 2, 2015, video, 30:08, https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2015-12-03/sir-michael-moritz-studio-1-0-full-show-12-02-.
“Here’s some news”: Emily Jane Fox, “Silicon Valley V.C. Firm Can’t Find Any Women,” Vanity Fair, Dec. 3, 2015, https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/12/michael-moritz-sequoia-women-partners-tech.
“I’m a history major”: Moritz, interview by author, Bloomberg, Dec. 2, 2015.
On the heels of my interview: “The Midas List,” Forbes, 2015, https://www.forbes.com/data/midas-interactive-2015.
61 percent of the top: Sukhinder Singh Cassidy, “Do You Need a STEM Degree to Be a Successful VC? The Answer Is No,” Medium, Dec. 4, 2015, https://medium.com/@sukhindersinghcassidy/do-you-need-a-stem-degree-to-be-a-successful-vc-the-answer-is-no-fe974145e6a8.
“We need to do better”: Sequoia Capital, “We need to do better,” Twitter post, Dec. 3, 2015, https://twitter.com/sequoia/status/672502717131034624.
“We’re not going to run”: Michael Moritz speaks at the Exploratorium, March 16, 2016.
“It makes zero sense”: Michael Moritz, “The Next Billion-Dollar Idea,” Interview by Andrew Ross Sorkin, Vanity Fair New Establishment Summit, Oct. 14, 2016, video, 30:08, https://video.vanityfair.com/watch/the-new-establishment-summit-the-next-billion-dollar-idea.