Sequoia VC Michael Moritz Badly Answers Question on Hiring Women | Re/code
Re/code Event Updates Re/code Product Updates http://on.recode.net/1YLqpPt Trending Share: There are jarringly few women who work in the venture capital industry. Almost 80 percent of VC firms have never appointed a woman to represent them on the board of a portfolio company. In Sequoia Capital's case that kind of move would actually be impossible; they don't have any female VCs to appoint. That's why it didn't come as much of a surprise when Sequoia Capital Chairman Michael Moritz in an interview with Bloomberg this week delivered an astoundingly out-of-touch and dismissive answer to questions about hiring women. Moritz is the chairman of Sequoia Capital, a former Google board member, a billionaire ( three times over ) and perhaps the closest thing Silicon Valley venture capital has to royalty; he was literally made a knight of the British Empire in 2013. By Eric Johnson , Nov 4, 2015, 3:Read full article from Sequoia VC Michael Moritz Badly Answers Question on Hiring Women | Re/code
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