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“Digital safe-tea”, which uses a “choose your own adventure” format similar to those featured in the popular 80s books, lets players take on the personas of Goitse, Aisha, and Dami, three distinctly young African women.

When office closure puts distance between colleagues, many hoped that incidents of harassment would stop. That flame quickly went dark.

  Last spring, as offices closed across the country and kitchen tables became desks, contemplating the possible upsides of the new professional conundrum felt like a means of survival. There was much tumult, and there were many questions. Among them: Once we all became boxes on Zoom or text bubbles in a chat, and once we were physically separated from colleagues and clients, would incidents of workplace harassment drop? That flame quickly went dark. What is virtual harassment? Kalpana Kotagal,...

Ellen Pao: Meritocracy in tech is a myth CNN 2 hrs ago By Michelle Toh, CNN Business © Steve Jennings/Getty Images SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA - OCTOBER 04: Project Include Co-Founder & CEO Ellen Pao speaks onstage during TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco 2019 at Moscone Convention Center on October 04, 2019 in San Francisco, California. (Photo by Steve Jennings/Getty Images for TechCrunch) The "biggest myth" about working in the tech industry is that its based on a meritocrac...

When workers want to stay remote, companies will have to rethink culture CNBC 2 hrs ago The consensus is clear: Workers dont want to go back to the office full-time. According to a recent Prudential survey of 2,000 adults whove been able to work from home during the pandemic, an overwhelming 87% want the ability to continue doing so after the risks of the virus subside. One in three employees doesnt want to work for an employer that requires them to be onsite full-time, and nearly half say if...

Reid Hoffman and Chris Yehs "Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies" is a must-read for founders looking to start and scale their business the most successful way possible. The book answers the question every founder has about how to make a startup into a global giant. Hoffman and Yehs answer is "blitzscaling: a set of techniques for scaling up at a dizzying pace that blows competitors out of the water." Hoffman got his start in Silicon Valley as the COO ...

A survey by a Silicon Valley advocate for equal treatment of women and minorities found online harassment increased during the pandemic.

Block Party’s Tracy Chou will join us at TechCrunch Sessions: Justice on March 3 Tracy Chou’s resume is impressive. She interned at RocketFuel, Google and Facebook before becoming a software engineer at Quora and Pinterest. She is also a major advocate for diversity within the tech industry, launching Project Include in 2016. Now, she’s the founder and CEO of Block Party, a platform aimed at making people feel safer on social media platforms. Obviously, we’re absolutely thrilled to anno...

Multitudes, a new SaaS startup, raises $1.7M USD to create inclusive, high-performing teams Share Article Investors include Ellen Pao (CEO of Project Include; former CEO of Reddit), Jon Williams (co-founder of Culture Amp and Pyn), and Blackbird Ventures (investor in Zoox and Culture Amp). Multitudes is on a mission to measure and manage both culture and performance. Founder Lauren Peate came up with the product after working with teams on four continents around the world. Lauren Peate (second ...