But then, to use the parlance of Silicon Valley, there was a pivot. Rather, it’s the kind of subtleties — the microaggressions — that are hard to pinpoint and often even harder to call out. “I think there would be two enormous differences,” the longtime investor Roger McNamee told her, when she asked him to imagine a world where women held half the jobs in Silicon Valley. “I think Silicon Valley would be wildly more profitable. Silicon Valley has long celebrated failure as a way station to success.

Source: New York Times March 19, 2018 19:14 UTC