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It’s definitely worth clamming up in the fraction of the fraction of situations that the author describes (female founder + potentially very negative feedback) if it means avoiding a Ellen Pao type situation. On one side you have something that could destroy your reputation, work, and cost you and on the other is holding back advice that may or may not help someone a bit.

Also, are really downplaying what happened and ignoring the fact that it could have ended up much worse for KP.

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> Also, are really downplaying what happened and ignoring the fact that it could have ended up much worse for KP.

I'm curious to hear what I'm downplaying here. We're talking about a very rare case where the individual making the accusation had the wherewithal both to file a lawsuit against the company and to write a mass market book that got tons of publicity. And the company won the lawsuit and is doing just fine. Doesn't that mean the risk of real, actual consequences is vanishingly small?