Investor's Naked Selfies Ignite MeToo Moment: Female Founder Fights Back

> He agreed to invest. Then later that evening, she says, he sent her naked photos of himself.

I can't imagine that ever happening to me; and AFAICT that's the crux of this problem: that some people seem to think that it's acceptable to behave this way with their professional relationships with women.

> Giorgi says 40 women founders have gotten their investors to sign the candor clause, but others are afraid to push for it.

When securing funding is a desperate scramble, any edge to success can be appealing; it's not hard to imagine that there is some hesitation to demanding better treatment because doing so might close doors.

For that reason, I suspect that change needs to be lead by the investors themselves; show the market that their founder's sexual appeal isn't ever a deciding factor in securing investment.

I think what that investor did is quite appalling. In turn going public with the incident resulted in more funding, which leaves me a bit conflicted. If your product or service is good enough to garner interest by a firm she could have said no to noodz vc and pitched somewhere else. If anything, I feel for not only the founder but the colleagues at the firm. Terrible stuff.

Would those three Duke University lacrosse team kids have to disclose that they were accused of rape if they wanted to invest in her company?

How about the "Central Park Five"?