Opinion | The Elizabeth Holmes Trial Is a Wake-Up Call for Sexism in Tech

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Opinion | The Elizabeth Holmes Trial Is a Wake-Up Call for Sexism in Tech
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'She should be held accountable for her actions as chief executive of Theranos. AND it can be sexist to hold her accountable for alleged serious wrongdoing and not hold an array of men accountable for reports of wrongdoing or bad judgment.' - ekp

The New York Times; Photograph by Taylor Hill/Getty ImagesMs. Pao is a tech investor and chief executive of Project Include, a diversity, equity and inclusion nonprofit. She is the author of “Reset: My Fight for Inclusion and Lasting Change,” about her lawsuit against a venture capital firm and her experience running the technology company Reddit.

benefit from the hyperbole that dominates venture investing, a world I worked in for nine years, total. Why shouldn’t a woman show the same single-minded confidence that her male peers did? By 2015, Ms. Holmes raised more than $400 million in financing and Theranos was valued at $9 billion. At last, I thought: a charismatic woman with a compelling vision, actually able to raise huge amounts of funding at astronomic valuations.

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