2:11:05 Sarah Lacey is the editor-in-chief of Pando? No, she is the founder and one of the... She's a founder. So she was doing what and writer and she was in town? No this is from her speech that she did that was lauded by women I know About the bro culture in Silicon Valley. Okay? Yes, she's been on that I bet you can explain before she said it. You're gonna explain later okay. You've explained it to me outside this was a setup bit remember your punchline Are you back all right? I'm mom all right. I also put her entire prezzo in the show notes It's a power flower point now
2:11:55 I'm just playing this just so you can hear what she's saying, because i think the way she says... Also what she's wearing is very interesting. It's kind of like a Lena Dunham outfit and I think she's gone full Lena Dunham. And she makes very generalized statements or very broad sweeping statements And to me, it's like absolutely there are women and men is a problem everywhere. Everywhere! And I'm sure that where there is money, there are even bigger problems As we know most of the wars in the world are about a couple guys turf and hookers It's always what its about Always So...it's always good to improve everybody Yes, we all want to be better
2:12:38 But I'm not so sure your approach is going to work very well. Hello, hello how are you? So my first book I ever wrote actually my second book was about entrepreneurship and emerging markets and I was hugely pregnant when I was promoting it And I did 30 keynotes around the world and I got to go talk to all these places about why Silicon Valley was so great! They would look at me like yeah we know shut up today Today you get to hear about why Silicon Valley is awful. This is the keynote you've been waiting for if you're outside the Silicon Valley ecosystem and sick of the smugness, and I honestly said she's smuggly don't know how I'm gonna get through all of this in 18 minutes. I have just spent over a year writing a book about my journey from cool girl patriarchy enabler was she ever a cool girl?
2:13:33 Is this a TEDx talk? No, it's just the conference. She said 18 minutes and that to me is a TED talk Oh yeah, well she didn't get paid if that's what you're asking. Well they don't pay a TED, Ted doesn't pay anybody I think That's my point So she is speaking at a conference in Canada, maybe they paid her plane ticket or something But she wants to get out so she is going to do all these and just like her previous tour of 30 all over the world 30 TED Talks My journey from cool girl patriarchy enabler To badass feminist mama bear And so I've researched every element of this
2:14:08 And we are in the middle of a brosplosion. Brosplosion! In Silicon Valley, that is like heavy work. Loved it, needed it. Working around the clock so I'm gonna move super quick everything on these slides is sourced I can send you the slides if you want the data and you want those sources just email me afterwards and we're gonna like micro machines speed through this Hey baby let's micromachines speed through this okay? I don't even know what that means. I liked it so much, I remembered it micromachined through this okay? It's... but that is a mean! It's-I dunno but really its the whole presentation that I just found bothersome because she comes across as extremely smug and I dont understand why she chose that tact or maybe thats just the way she is but she has an extremely valid point when she gets to
2:15:02 Reasoning as to why this is happening or what influences are going on gets a little dimension B. You have a valley full of guys who want to talk about how horrible Donald Trump is, they act just like him! share the politics, but they literally do the exact same tactics to the point where if you even look at some of the walk back apologies from the men who have lost their jobs. This is also interesting this is a new term we gotta be on lookout for walk back apologies Walk back apologies. It means that you apologize, but it wasn't good enough! Over these sexual harassment scandals they're calling it witch hunts and fake news. I mean...it's actually amazing that they don't see that they're looking in the mirror Any thoughts before I play this out?
2:15:53 It sounds Sarah has this good speaking style that I think is this is pretty much her style. Okay, and I don't know if she can It's not Valley girlish very much. She's very yeah, she's very a little bit She's some the South you do or southern thing to work. She doesn't really want it. I don't know what she hates I don't know why because that's enabling the patriarchy So here's the good news. Unfortunately for all those bros, I'm from energized feminism in America. Women of my generation are wearing pink hats on their head who spent their 20s and 30s
2:16:31 Go feminism with kind of handmaid's tale style blinders on wanting to pretend sexism didn't exist and it wasn't a thing We've now gotten just so horrified by the amount of rights that this administration wants to take away from us Oh, hold on a second. Is this sourced? Can I see can I find the source of this of their rights your rights that are being taken away Sorry It should be in the slide. It should be a reference on the slide. It's not, but we've been so horrified by our rights being taken away Do you have a thought about what rights are being taken away? None that I know of Her rights specifically her rights
2:17:12 She still has the right to speak at these events. Yes, she has a right I presume she's talking about the right to an abortion which you still had that right is not been taken away it's been made difficult by douchebags all agree with that certainly in Texas douche bags but it's not like everybody with a pink hat couldn't put their money together and build an approved clinic I'm in No, I don't see that. It has to be the government! All of us in our 30s and 40s and 50s in this industry who suddenly want to be thought of as women in this industry, and want to work for and help other women in this industry. And this has now become our issue. On top of that you have the millennial generation and all that millennial entitlement we've all read so many case studies about is great.
2:18:10 for women coming up who are millennials because they are simply not accepting the I gotta pay my dues bullshit that women of my generation accepted. On top of that, you have the teen Vogue generation that basically has a 20 year head start on my generation and accepting that feminism there's a need for feminists and they want to identify as feminist." Man this is could not be more polar opposite to The Elephant Story huh? Damn Good contrast. Good work! Yes, thank you. So what's interesting is that she blamed Trump and she saying this is the bro culture... maybe not saying harassment but the bro culture that this because of the president? Does it ring true? Did she say that?! Yeah, she said it was because of Trump they don't like his politics but they talk about fake news and witch hunt in their walk back apologies