In 2007, BusinessWeek named him one of the Best Young Entrepreneurs of Tech. Previously he co-founded and served as CTO of IMVU, his third startup. In 2010, he was named entrepreneur-in-residence at Harvard Business School and is currently an IDEO Fellow.
He serves on the advisory board of a number of technology startups, and has consulted to new and established companies as well as venture capital firms. Producer and legal defense fund donor Katie McGrath said that many women had realized from early on that they needed to establish what they wanted to achieve, “and what was going to be required in order to shift and pivot from this horror to structural change”.Eric Ries is an entrepreneur and author of the New York Times bestseller The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Business, published by Crown Business. While Time’s Up plans to structure itself as a decentralized organization with no formal hierarchy but established traditions, it plans to forge alliances with similarly focused organizations, among them 50/50 by 2020, a group that aims for equal representation in US boardrooms by 2020. “We’re finally hearing each other, and seeing each other, and now locking arms in solidarity with each other, and in solidarity for every woman who doesn’t feel seen, to be finally heard,” Witherspoon said. Witherspoon told the New York Times the organization, which was founded in October, offered an opportunity for women to join forces in an industry that has typically been run by men. That’s not what this moment is about.”īeyond the symbolism of red carpet fashion, Time’s Up’s legal defense operation will be administered by the National Women’s Law Center’s Legal Network for Gender Equity which connects victims of sexual harassment with legal representation.ĭonors include Witherspoon, Meryl Streep, Steven Spielberg and wife Kate Capshaw, and leading talent agencies that are under pressure to reform their practices in the aftermath of the Harvey Weinstein scandal. “This time the industry can’t expect us to go up and twirl around. “For years, we’ve sold these awards shows as women, with our gowns and colors and our beautiful faces and our glamour,” Longoria added. Organizers plan to ask women to wear black on the red carpet at this year’s Golden Globes. Janelle Monáe, a signatory of the Time’s Up open letter, at the 2017 Academy Awards. “This is a moment of solidarity, not a fashion moment,” actor Eva Longoria, who rose to fame in Desperate Housewives, told the paper. Organizers also plan to ask women walking the red carpet at the Golden Globes this year to wear black. The initiative’s goals also include promoting legislation to penalize companies that tolerate persistent harassment, and to fight against the use of non-disclosure agreements to shield sexual abusers. Organizers said they were moved to broaden the effort after receiving an open letter on behalf of 700,000 female farmworkers in November. The group rapidly expanded and now includes meetings and workshops for participants in New York and London. The organization arose from informal gatherings of female talent agents in Los Angeles who starting meeting after the issue of sexual harassment landed like a bombshell on the entertainment industry in October. While attention has largely focused on show business and the media, Time’s Up seeks to include the plight of working-class women. In a sense, Time’s Up is being launched as a companion to the #MeToo movement that grew out of the spontaneous response to revelations about Hollywood’s “casting-couch” system of sexual predation and enduring gender-pay disparities.
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