The return of the founders triggers a debate on living
In today’s edition: Meta has collected data in a period monitoring application, sexual harassment is a big problem for Uber, and everyone wants to talk about the return of the founding woman.
– She’s back. Earlier this week, I wrote on the resurgence of the 2010 founding woman – a group of founders who have lost control of their companies in 2020 now return and try again. I was happy to see him. People are worth a second chance, and five years later, it seems to us that a founder gave us.
It seems that it was a subject that people looked for the right time to speak, because the answer was overwhelming. In my reception box, texts, on Instagram, Tiktok, Linkedin, and the more I heard founders who said they were waiting for a story like this. I heard founders who have never approached the revolts of employees or the “dismantages” of the media, but nevertheless said that they have shrunk in response to the fears of poor media coverage in recent years. Some only had now with the impact that had on their businesses. Other business leaders – such as the founder and CEO of Airbnb, Brian Chesky, who began the debate of the “founding mode” of last year – also expressed history.
Others, of course, did not agree and said they were not happy to see these founders come back – they did not believe that things would be different this time or did not want to forgive management errors, the impact of these errors on women of color in their staff or other problems. There was an animated debate on the subject in the chat for the newsletter of Feed Me and in the chat for the Newsletter of Sophia Amoruso herself, which invented the term “girlboss”.
My old Fortune Colleague Beth Kowitt, now at Bloomberg, has published her own point of view on this trend on the same day. We did not coordinate (I promise) but the two had similar feelings about what Beth called “girls’ revenge”. This week, it was Ty Haney, Audrey Gelman, Yael Afalo and Steph Korey, but it is clear that the real impact is greater than this handful of women. Tell me, what do you think of this 3.0 female era? Are things really different now? Send me a note to the email address below!
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Also in the headlines
– Confidentiality n0-no. A jury found that Meta has illegally collected Flo user data, the period tracking application. Listening to communications in the application has violated the law of the invasion of the privacy of California. The meta opposed the verdict and intends to appeal. The penis
– Bad BLS News. In addition to making the commissioner dismiss by Trump, the report of jobs of this month revealed other news: 212,000 women over 20 years old have left the labor market since January. (Meanwhile, 44,000 men entered the labor market.) While women left the labor market at the start of the pandemic, the participation of work has skyrocketed since 2022. Meanwhile, the flexibility of the workplace has decreased. Time
– Danger zone. Uber has received a sexual assault report or misconduct almost every eight minutes between 2017 and 2022, according to the New York Times. While Uber studied the problem and developed tools that have helped, he delayed the demanding that drivers adopt them, the Times reported. An internal document on security standards said that Uber’s objective was not to be “the police” but to “set the tolerable risk level for our operations”. Uber’s security manager for the Americas said that “there is no” tolerable “sexual assault level” and that 75% of the reported incidents were less serious – as a comment on someone’s appearance, rather than attacks. New York Times
– Talk. The pendulum swings on business activism, once again. After a long period in which people were fed up with it that companies take position on social issues, 51% of American adults say they think that companies should take public positions on current issues. Freedom of expression, climate change, mental health and Dei are the four main subjects to which companies wish to respond. Axios
Movers and shaking
Diabedica Therapeutics, which develops treatments for preeclampsia, named Julie Corps Chief doctor.
Digital Triton promoted Sharon Taylor to the income chief.
On my radar
Gossip Girl of fashion has a name. It’s Lauren Sherman Rushing
US Open announces the prices of the Grand Colem Record in money in the middle of the player’s troubles Athletics
From Tiktok to ESPN, Katie Feeney is the future of sports media Washington Post
Words of separation
“Once the first launch is launched, we just do our job.”
—Alanna Rizzo to be part of a completely feminine broadcast stand for the Red Sox this week
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