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À ce jour, Change.org a levé 50 millions de dollars d’investissement en accord avec notre mission sociale et venant de chefs de file dans l’entrepreneuriat, a technologie et les médias, dont Richard Branson, Bill Gates, Reid Hoffman, Arianna Huffington, Ashton Kutcher et Guy Oseary, Jeff Weiner, Evan Williams et Omidyar Network.
Un association sans but lucratif mais bien introduite quand même...
The Doyenne of DNA Says : Just Chillax With Your Ex - The New York Times
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/18/style/anne-wojcicki-23andme-genetics.html
Alors comme ça, les pages people ne sont plus pour les têtes couronnées, ou pour les vedettes du show biz... mais les tycoons de la Silicon Valley. Bon, c’est la page people du NYT, évidemment. Mais c’est significatif.
Il faudra aussi se rappeler ce que veut dire « aristocratie » en Californie à l’ère des start-ups et des licornes. Les mariages ont toujours été des manières de lier les familles de pouvoir. Mais la nouvelle définition des liens aristocratiques vient certainement de la manière de se comporter quand le mariage s’éteint. Quand le maintien des statuts devient l’enjeu majeur et doit par pure distinction effacer les douleurs et les sentiments d’abandon.
Like others in Silicon Valley obsessed with living forever, she takes the long view: “If we’re going to live to 150 years, the reality that you’re going to be with one person for 100 years is low. And so you have to find a way that we can have relationships with people and preserve what’s positive.”
She says she wants to be a model for how to deal with controversy and disappointment to her son and daughter.
“I get really sad when I meet people who have conflict in their family,” she says. “Like people who hate their parents or don’t like a sibling or have an acrimonious divorce. Life is just too short.”
Et comme toujours, le mode de vie des aristocrates et des célébrités devient le modèle pour tous les autres. Peut être même de bons modèles, une fois que l’on met de côté les valuers de pouvoir qui s’y cachent.
Ms. Wojcicki admits that next time, “I’d really love to date someone who’s really simple and not famous. My life is already pretty complicated.”
I ask her if Harvey Weinstein, an early investor, is still involved.
“Once an investor, always an investor. It’s like ‘Hotel California,’” she says. “He has always been supportive of the company and of me, but he clearly has behavior that you can’t possibly condone. You recognize that people can have two different worlds. So it’s disappointing.”
She said that her best mentors have been Arianna Huffington and Diane von Furstenberg. “They are the two people who are just like, ‘I want to support women. I want to support you doing awesome things. I believe in you. You can do it.’”
#Presse_people #Médias #Anne_Vojcicki #23_and_me #Silicon_Valley #Aristocratie #Serguey_Brin
Uber fires 20 employees as part of harassment investigation - The Washington Post
▻https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/06/06/uber-fires-more-than-20-employees-as-part-of-sexual-harassment-inves
Uber has fired 20 employees in recent months as part of a wide-ranging investigation of the climate and culture at the popular ride-hailing service, the company said Tuesday.
The report of the firings initially came from an attorney at the Perkins Coie law firm, which Uber hired to assist in a broader harassment investigation at the company and which made a presentation at the company’s weekly staff meeting Tuesday.
The company later said the firings, which included some senior executives, were for sexual harassment, discrimination, unprofessional behavior, retaliation, bullying and physical safety issues. Most but not all of those fired worked at Uber’s San Francisco headquarters.
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“This is enormous. For corporate allegations of sexual harassment and misconduct to lead to firing 20 people, I know of no comparable corporate action. It’s unprecedented,” said Debra Katz, a partner with Katz Marshall & Banks, a Washington-based firm specializing in representing employees who bring sexual harassing claims against companies. “This is a significant action by Uber to give a strong message to take these actions seriously.”
Katz said Uber’s decision cast doubt on earlier comments by board member Arianna Huffington, who is on a committee overseeing Uber’s workplace culture and who had said that Uber had “some bad apples” but that the company’s problems were not systemic. “This seems to suggest that they cannot simply say it’s only a few bad apples here.”