Whats the point of posting this if you can’t name and Shame.

Recruiter

Name and Shame pls. Also a VC if your startup’s good will fund

Having money to give and then flirting while someone asks for it looks a bit wrong, certainly yes. 
  
 BUT: 
  
 I think if you are being honest, you need to pick it up with his firm first- if you are genuinely served injustice. 
 Have you already done this? Were you still meted injustice? Then fine you can probably go ahead but be careful and sure you were rejected just because you refused to entertain him & not because your firm genuinely failed to impress him. 
  
 If not, You coming here directly & threatening to use gender card & media sympathy makes it feel like you are just out for revenge and are just a sore loser. Especially when you have not tried to genuinely get justice and here, directly trying to hurt him. 
  
 Even then calling someone womanizer is as bad as calling someone slut? And if being slut is not a crime then so is being womanizer. Flirting and being friendly or sweet talking is not a crime either. 
  
 Unless you have tried to get justice first through proper channels, this looks like a ploy to get revenge and u might be just a sore loser for all we know. 
  
 Please don't take this as me mudslinging at you, angry minds can do stupid things that might be wrong & you might regret later, so think carefully and do what's right. 
 Am also sorry if you guys failed to secure funding🙁. Good luck. Hope you get your funding for the startup somehow. Nation needs more startups (healthy ones)

Founding Engineer

Ma’am have heard more like this especially in Delhi ncr, but from smaller firms. Best way to get such people reprimanded is to name them.

VC Analyst

Have heard this multiple times. Powerful guys have normalised this behaviour.

Business Development Manager

You should totally name and shame the firm. Don't worry, this is an anonymized platform.

Investor

Software Engineer

Went for pitching my startup with my cofounder and found him openly flirting and trying to be friendly.  Have you guys faced this? Isn’t this blatant abuse of power? Wondering if I should name the ...

Welcome to Indian Startups's Private Community

Went for pitching my startup with my cofounder and found him openly flirting and trying to be friendly.  Have you guys faced this? Isn’t this blatant abuse of power? Wondering if I should name the firm but scared.

Delhi based partner at top 10 VC firm WOMENIZER

Delhi based partner at top 10 VC firm WOMENIZER- Grapevine

Is this behaviour by VCs very common in Indian startup ecosystem? Have heard of more such stories from founder friends

Project Manager

Any experience of sleeping with the wrong VC in your company's investors? How did they harm you or affect you? Need names pls

Any bad VC stories?

Growth Manager

Have been hearing a lot that females in a lot of startups are being inappropriately touched by their managers. They are not raising just as their appraisal might get impacted. Is it the case that victims are not raising the cases while the ones who are filing are actual not the victim

Sexual Harassment Cases

pitching to VCs is stressful. Which VC partner in India gives founders an ear and at the same time respectful, empathetic, intelligent during the pitch?

Who is the best VC Partner to pitch your startup to?

VC here: Which company would you want to start if you left FAANG?

idea chori krne ka tareeka thoda cazual hai

Senior Software Engineer

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Is there a massive information asymmetry among VCs as well ? What is the level of fluidity in the system when it comes to information sharing ? What is the extent of damage, a few VCs opinion of a startup does to the start-ups fundraising capabilities?

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Investment Banking Associate

Welcome to Office Gossip's Private Community

I know sometimes we refrain from saying too much about our company. But exes can usually be talked about, since there's not much holding back.

Maybe it helps someone else avoid a mistake you did, or gain a new learning :p 

Shoot.

What's a secret from a previous workplace you worked at? 🤫

Not my workplace, but true story. 
  
 giant american retail company (assume it's W*) hires one giant indian IT services company (assume it's H*) for some maintenance work now this H* company has offload this work to small Indian IT services company (assume it's M*) which has a employee named R* who's one assigned to actually do the work but R* is smartass he's scouting internet for freelancer to fix the issues. He gets one junior guy P* to work for few thousand rupees and shares his credentials, vpn provider etc and our P* now messes up , in the whole scenario there's no safety lot's of mess total grey zone. 
  
 From knowing this incident, I'm like no one gives any fucks about anything, only if people weren't so bad.

Backend Engineer

Corporate Strategist

My heart is filled with nothing but disgust if these allegations are genuine. I hope this reaches its natural conclusion and justice prevails.

Just In from Twitter: Alleged Sexual Harassment at Inmobi | Glance

Worth pointing out here: most companies don't even have POSH policies that cover male victims of abuse 
  
 I hope he gets justice

Generalist

Product Manager

have come across multiple similar stories from WIPRO

seems like sexual harassment is very common in WIPRO

Program Manager

Welcome to Confessions's Private Community

I was into a founder’s office. Working closely with the leadership team of a funded Agri-tech startup (Which shall strictly remain anon in this post)

Does it happen to others the same way as it did to me?

I was one of the first FOs in the org and I was trying to figure what is up with this startup.

About 21 days in to company, I was helping a co-founder with a report that has to go out to investors.

I open up the metrics dashboard to enter numbers when he said “he knew the figures by heart”, so we began entering metrics like GMV and others. These were 5x of my range.

I said we should just double check ? He said there are factors in the formula that I have not considered at all and I finish the report as per the numbers he gave me.

Confused, I later dared to ask the lead PM how are we computing GMV. And told him about my dilemma to tell the founder we need to just double check his calculations.
Bless my naiveté.

He had a nervous smile and told me we report numbers that keep the startup exciting and afloat. We will catch up very soon with them.

The next morning, the founder also took me for a meeting and explained how doing this is important for everyone in the company to succeed.

I was very scared but lived in an autopilot of nervousness for 6 months. Part-took in it while being scared of going to prison myself.

I felt a terrible dread in my stomach in every interaction with with the admin and CA teams since in my first interaction I came across what I sensed to be a big fake bill. Was I blind to miss everyone in the office get a new chair the last month?

I never asked doubts on the money numbers the CA team gave me. But had reasons to doubt it basis other business data I had access to.

Everyone seemed to be on the same kind of auto pilot, good people who had never done anything wrong before this as far as I knew. Everyone considered leaving the culture and toxicity every week. 

The day I left, I had the email of the investors of the company since I’d emailed them countless decks and reports. I really wanted to drop an anonymous email revealing what I knew to them but I was afraid of the following repercussions to my career and I let the matter go.

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