Complex Event Analysis - Report

Complex Event Analysis - REPORT

Supporting narratives:

• challenge (Read more)
• "Every CEO, founder, investor, and engineer in tech sees the vitriolic tweets these employees of media corporations put out," wrote Balaji Srinivasan, an angel investor who previously worked at Andreessen Horowitz
• High Level Abstractions:
• (employees,media)
• (media,vitriolic)
• (ceo,media)
• (investor,media)

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• This particular reckoning may erode media credibility among some members of the tech community. It's also possible that founders and CEOs learn to listen to their employees before they go to the press.
• High Level Abstractions:
• (employees,media)
• (ceos,media)

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• I did not make this statement nor do I agree with its sentiments." Spear did not respond to follow-up questions.
  "To many tech executives and investors, this was cancel culture going too far"
  The Clubhouse discussion was sparked by a tweet from New York Times journalist Taylor Lorenz regarding the CEO of the luggage company Away. The executive, Steph Korey, had been railing against the media on Instagram
• High Level Abstractions:
• (ceo,taylor_lorenz)
• (ceo,media)
• (ceo,new_york_times)

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• It's like a tube and I have loudspeakers installed in every reporting cubicle around the world,'" according to a May 2015 New Yorker profile.
  But Silicon Valley's relationship with the media began to change in October 2015, when The Wall Street Journal published the first of a series of blockbuster stories that exposed high-flying blood-testing startup Theranos as a scam
• High Level Abstractions:
• (media,new_yorker)
• (media,silicon_valley)

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• It is no longer 1999; a founder-focused culture has been the norm in Silicon Valley for at least a decade. This particular reckoning may erode media credibility among some members of the tech community
• High Level Abstractions:
• (media,silicon_valley)

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• I did not make this statement nor do I agree with its sentiments." Spear did not respond to follow-up questions.
  "To many tech executives and investors, this was cancel culture going too far"
  The Clubhouse discussion was sparked by a tweet from New York Times journalist Taylor Lorenz regarding the CEO of the luggage company Away. The executive, Steph Korey, had been railing against the media on Instagram. Lorenz posted screenshots of the tirade, writing, "Steph Korey, the disgraced former CEO of Away luggage company, is ranting on IG stories about the media
• High Level Abstractions:
• (luggage,media)

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• I did not make this statement nor do I agree with its sentiments." Spear did not respond to follow-up questions.
  "To many tech executives and investors, this was cancel culture going too far"
  The Clubhouse discussion was sparked by a tweet from New York Times journalist Taylor Lorenz regarding the CEO of the luggage company Away
• High Level Abstractions:
• (clubhouse,media)

• challenge (Read more)
• Eron Gjoni penned a vengeful screed about his ex, developer Zoe Quinn, in August 2014, which Gamergate supporters used to create a narrative about the games media at large
• High Level Abstractions:
• (media,zoe_quinn)

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• Or why their facial recognition systems appear to be openly racist.
  As a result, tech reporting has focused less on founders and CEOs and more on the hundreds of thousands of workers who power their businesses. For founders and CEOs, that means public calls for their accountability
• High Level Abstractions:
• (ceos,workers)

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• In an hour-long audio clip obtained by The Verge and first reported by Vice, some speakers painted CEOs as the victims and questioned why the industry needed journalists.
  "I believe in standing up for people who do not have a voice, who cannot stand up for themselves," said Srinivasan when asked during the discussion about defending Steph Korey, the CEO of Away, who New York Times journalist Taylor Lorenz had tweeted about
• High Level Abstractions:
• (ceos,the_verge)
• (ceo,ceos)
• (ceos,srinivasan)

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• This particular reckoning may erode media credibility among some members of the tech community. It's also possible that founders and CEOs learn to listen to their employees before they go to the press. After all, workers wouldn't have to leak their stories to the media if companies responded to their concerns.
  Who knows
• High Level Abstractions:
• (ceos,employees)

• challenge (Read more)
• In an hour-long audio clip obtained by The Verge and first reported by Vice, some speakers painted CEOs as the victims and questioned why the industry needed journalists.
  "I believe in standing up for people who do not have a voice, who cannot stand up for themselves," said Srinivasan when asked during the discussion about defending Steph Korey, the CEO of Away, who New York Times journalist Taylor Lorenz had tweeted about.
• High Level Abstractions:
• (ceo,taylor_lorenz)
• (ceos,steph_korey)
• (ceos,taylor_lorenz)
• (ceo,steph_korey)
• (ceo,new_york_times)

• challenge (Read more)
• I did not make this statement nor do I agree with its sentiments." Spear did not respond to follow-up questions.
  "To many tech executives and investors, this was cancel culture going too far"
  The Clubhouse discussion was sparked by a tweet from New York Times journalist Taylor Lorenz regarding the CEO of the luggage company Away. The executive, Steph Korey, had been railing against the media on Instagram.
• High Level Abstractions:
• (ceo,luggage)
• (ceo,steph_korey)

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• Lorenz posted screenshots of the tirade, writing, "Steph Korey, the disgraced former CEO of Away luggage company, is ranting on IG stories about the media. Her posts are incoherent and it's disappointing to see a woman who ran a luggage brand perpetuate falsehoods like this abt an industry she clearly has 0 understanding of."
  The post exploded on Twitter, prompting a wave of harassment from venture capitalists and other tech executives who felt Lorenz was being unfair
• High Level Abstractions:
• (ceo,luggage)

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• Her posts are incoherent and it's disappointing to see a woman who ran a luggage brand perpetuate falsehoods like this abt an industry she clearly has 0 understanding of."
  The post exploded on Twitter, prompting a wave of harassment from venture capitalists and other tech executives who felt Lorenz was being unfair.
• High Level Abstractions:
• (ceo,lorenz)
• (ceo,venture)

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• A "cancel Taylor Lorenz" Twitter account popped up, and a parody website resurfaced. "Every CEO, founder, investor, and engineer in tech sees the vitriolic tweets these employees of media corporations put out," wrote Balaji Srinivasan, an angel investor who previously worked at Andreessen Horowitz
• High Level Abstractions:
• (ceo,taylor_lorenz)
• (ceo,investor)

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• In the past few years, story after story has been driven by employees and contractors at tech companies disillusioned by their working conditions and their products'effects on society.
  ""What they're trying to do is destabilize the ability to be critical about tech CEOs.""
  This shift posed something of a problem for founder-centric VCs
• High Level Abstractions:
• (employees,media)
• (ceos,employees)
• (ceos,society)

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• In the past few years, story after story has been driven by employees and contractors at tech companies disillusioned by their working conditions and their products'effects on society.
  ""What they're trying to do is destabilize the ability to be critical about tech CEOs.""
  This shift posed something of a problem for founder-centric VCs.
• High Level Abstractions:
• (ceos,media)

• WIP (Read more)
• The answer, when it presented itself, was simple: go after the media instead.
  "There's sort of this larger project going on where they are trying to transmute accountability for CEOs, and the rising worker movements with values they don't agree [with], into what they are going to reframe as part of the 'cancel culture'problem, because that's the thing that has larger purchase, that there's pushback on," one well-known tech CEO tells The Verge
• High Level Abstractions:
• (ceo,ceos)
• (ceos,transmute)
• (ceos,media)
• (ceo,media)

• WIP (Read more)
• For founders and CEOs, that means public calls for their accountability. Some of those are bound to appear on major media outlets.
  As Marc Andreessen pointed out in that 2015 New Yorker profile, the future changes in ways one can't necessarily predict
• High Level Abstractions:
• (ceos,media)

• WIP (Read more)
• Lorenz posted screenshots of the tirade, writing, "Steph Korey, the disgraced former CEO of Away luggage company, is ranting on IG stories about the media.
• High Level Abstractions:
• (ceo,media)

• WIP (Read more)
• which invested $10 million in Clubhouse directly and bought up an additional $2 million of previous investors'shares. was early to tap the power of media to raise the profiles of its startups
• High Level Abstractions:
• (clubhouse,media)

• WIP (Read more)
• It's there to inform the public, and make you feel self-aware."
  Andreessen Horowitz did not respond to a request for comment on this story.
  TheThe tension between tech journalism and venture capital was at the heart of the discussion that took place on Clubhouse on July 1st.
• High Level Abstractions:
• (clubhouse,media)
• (media,venture)

• WIP (Read more)
• The answer, when it presented itself, was simple: go after the media instead.
  "There's sort of this larger project going on where they are trying to transmute accountability for CEOs, and the rising worker movements with values they don't agree [with], into what they are going to reframe as part of the 'cancel culture'problem, because that's the thing that has larger purchase, that there's pushback on," one well-known tech CEO tells The Verge.
• High Level Abstractions:
• (media,well-known)
• (ceo,well-known)
• (ceo,the_verge)
• (ceos,well-known)
• (ceos,the_verge)

• WIP (Read more)
• It's also possible that founders and CEOs learn to listen to their employees before they go to the press. After all, workers wouldn't have to leak their stories to the media if companies responded to their concerns.
  Who knows
• High Level Abstractions:
• (ceos,workers)

• WIP (Read more)
• Safe Space
  Silicon Valley, Clubhouse, and the cult of VC victimhood
  By Zoe Schiffer and Megan Farokhmanesh Jul 16, 2020, 8:00am EDT
  On July 1st, a group of venture capitalists and well-known tech elites logged on to the invite-only social platform Clubhouse to discuss a pressing issue in Silicon Valley: journalists canceling CEOs
• High Level Abstractions:
• (ceos,well-known)

• WIP (Read more)
• "We don't have a lot of money or the name recognition that the founders and venture capitalists do," says a former Away employee. They added that no CEO, male or female, should be able to treat workers poorly
• High Level Abstractions:
• (ceo,venture)

• WIP (Read more)
• "We don't have a lot of money or the name recognition that the founders and venture capitalists do," says a former Away employee. They added that no CEO, male or female, should be able to treat workers poorly. a reference to the argument that male leaders aren't held to the same standards
• High Level Abstractions:
• (ceo,workers)

Target rule match count: 32.0 Challenge: 0.29 Momentum: 0.00 WIP: 0.21