26-06-2022, 09:27 PM
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Next Day - RHD Conference Day 2
Tharun was practicing his speech for the keynote. He wanted to hit the 3 things he wants his customers to know.
"knock... knock..."
Who the fuck is that...
"sir, sorry to interrupt Tharini wants to talk to you"
"not now"
"sir, her dad insists, he was trying to call you"
Tharun was furious but her Dad is his mentor, someone he respects, someone from who he learnt his leadership skills. He knows how Tharini is, being only daughter to someone as good as her Dad, you can only imagine how much leadership skills Tharini has by nature at such a young age.
Tharini is only 24. She took over as one of the board members after her Dad passed away gaining control and ownership over her Dad's venture capital company. She's not afraid of power, men or anything in the world, particularly male dominance. She is a huge proponent of women's rights and a hard core feminist.
Tharun, during your keynote today, I want you to say a few words about our Women in RHD initiative. I've compiled a list of women who are VPs and Senior execs and I want you to talk about them"
"Tharini, this is not the time.. you know I hired them right? I promoted them. I am the reason why they are in these roles.."
"Yes... great, then you shouldn't have a problem talking about them on the stage"
"Like I said I have a company to run, product to sell"
Tharun was annoyed he prepared more than 3 months for this day. Tharun respects women and he is a huge proponent of women's rights and equality in the workplace. In fact he made sure every woman in the company is getting paid equally or more than men for the same role. But he thinks equality for all shouldn't be up for debate, but feminism as an institution has become regressive in many cases.
He though about Tharini's Dad for a minute and also about Tharini's powerful position in the company as one of the Board of Directors. He didn't want to say no, but he had an idea.
"ok fine I'll do it. ask them to cancel Jake's presentation, I need 15 more minutes"
Tharun walked up to the stage and all the retail investors in the audience who made millions buying RHD stock stood up and gave him a standing ovation... you cannot hear anything but firecracker like thunderous applause.
Tharun didn't stop them, he basked in the sound of the audience cooing and clapping calling his name and yelling "Tharoooon, we love you"
"I love you too...." the audience laughed and slowly began to settle down.
Tharun was about to start his speech and saw Tharini in the front seat, and he was looking for Vani in the crowd... and a second later he saw Vani walked in the front row and sat on the only empty seat next to Tharini. Tharun was puzzled and thought to himself since when did they became friends.
Tharun brought his focus back to the speech and he cleared his through...
"Good morning London, how ya'll doin" he purposely faced a Silicon Valley accent to get some giggles...
As he was about to give a speech he paused for a moment and started a completely unplanned topic.
"Women still get screwed over in myriad ways." He paused and looked at the entire auditorium full of people but there was an eery silence you can hear a pin drop.
"Yes, Women still get screwed over in myriad ways, It’s just that whereas before..." he paused
"it was an open and accepted part of society, today much of it is non-obvious and even unconscious. This is a tricky business because you’re no longer dealing with institutions—you’re dealing with people’s perceptions and brains. You have to confront belief systems and irrational assumptions and force people to unlearn things that they’ve “known” for decades. It’s a really, really hard thing to undertake."
"And the hardest part about it is that there’s no easy metric in the social arena for what is equal and what is not. If I fire three employees and two of them are women, is that equality? Or is that sexism? You can’t say unless you know why I fired them. And you can’t know why I fired them unless you can get inside my brain and understand my beliefs and motivations."
"So, today feminism has a measurement problem, it’s easy to measure whether boys and girls are receiving the same funding in colleges. It’s easy to see whether a man and woman are being paid appropriately for the same work. You just pull out your calculator and go to work."
Tharini realized what Tharun is doing... she wanted him to talk about feminism.. and he is probably taking it to the next level like he always does. She was fuming.
"But how do you measure social justice?" Tharun continued.
"If people like a brother more than their sister, is it because she’s a woman? Or is she just a shitty person? Or, more aptly, if a few women think a college mascot is scary and intimidating, is that legitimate ‘oppression’? What about overused adverbs? How the hell did we get here? Can I ask any more rhetorical questions?"
The crowd was completely quiet. They were surprised by the bold open speech by a world's best CEO.
Tharun kept going...
"In the past few decades, sexual violence has halved, and domestic violence has dropped by an astounding two-thirds.
"The point I'm trying to make is that a lot of progress has been made since feminism’s second wave in the 60s and 70s."
"But the problem is that, like I said, feminism, in the process of enacting all of the progress of the last 50 years, became more than a philosophy—it became an institution. And institutions are always primarily interested in sustaining themselves first and engaging with the world as it is second."
"Those stalwart feminist activists of the 60s and 70s who were at protests and burning their bras or whatever, many of them moved into academia. They got graduate degrees and wrote books and founded departments and held conferences and created political organizations and had fundraisers and started magazines. And pretty soon, feminism was no longer a cause for these people, it was their career. Their paychecks depended on there being patriarchy and oppression everywhere they looked. Their departments depended on it. Their professional careers and speaking fees depended on it. And so they found it."
Now Tharun's style is to complete the speech with a banger... which comes from his mouth next..."
"A company that truly empowers women shouldn't need a department dedicated to women empowerment, here at RHD it's our second nature."
Tharun pointed at Sheryl (his former CEO who gave him a blow job, when Tharun saved the company from a massive outage few years ago. Sheryl is now on the board with more than 50% ownership of the company and she always admired Tharun. She believed Tharun built this company from the ground up, he was more like the founder since it was all his ideas that made it into the product.
Tharun pointed at Sheryl, "Sheryl here taught me so much when I was the chief architect... she's empowered she didn't require a department dedicated for their empowerment"
He pointed at one of his EVP of Marketing... "Janet, here we hired her to run the operations, and now purely because of her hard work and all the improvements she made, I promoted her to run the entire marketing organization"
"Poorni, who comes from humble beginning is running the entire cloud infra with 600 people reporting to her"
"These women are self made... they didn't require an institution... and that's the environment I want to build in this company"
Finally he looked at Tharini, her face was fuming with anger....
"Tharini runs the women's at RHD organization and she's doing amazing work... so that will continue to happen but the point I am trying to make is that everyone men, women and everyone on between has the responsibility to make sure women in this company feels empowered. It's not just Tharini's department's job"
The crowd was pleasantly surprised how he ended the speech while, Tharini was little relieved but she was still so angry and fuming.
Tharun was practicing his speech for the keynote. He wanted to hit the 3 things he wants his customers to know.
- He wants them to know how stable the company is given the inflation and unpredictable crypto market
- He wants everyone in the world to know he is single handedly bringing the changing the world
- Finally, leave lasting impression in everyone's mind about not being able to survive without RHD's product.
"knock... knock..."
Who the fuck is that...
"sir, sorry to interrupt Tharini wants to talk to you"
"not now"
"sir, her dad insists, he was trying to call you"
Tharun was furious but her Dad is his mentor, someone he respects, someone from who he learnt his leadership skills. He knows how Tharini is, being only daughter to someone as good as her Dad, you can only imagine how much leadership skills Tharini has by nature at such a young age.
Tharini is only 24. She took over as one of the board members after her Dad passed away gaining control and ownership over her Dad's venture capital company. She's not afraid of power, men or anything in the world, particularly male dominance. She is a huge proponent of women's rights and a hard core feminist.
Tharun, during your keynote today, I want you to say a few words about our Women in RHD initiative. I've compiled a list of women who are VPs and Senior execs and I want you to talk about them"
"Tharini, this is not the time.. you know I hired them right? I promoted them. I am the reason why they are in these roles.."
"Yes... great, then you shouldn't have a problem talking about them on the stage"
"Like I said I have a company to run, product to sell"
Tharun was annoyed he prepared more than 3 months for this day. Tharun respects women and he is a huge proponent of women's rights and equality in the workplace. In fact he made sure every woman in the company is getting paid equally or more than men for the same role. But he thinks equality for all shouldn't be up for debate, but feminism as an institution has become regressive in many cases.
He though about Tharini's Dad for a minute and also about Tharini's powerful position in the company as one of the Board of Directors. He didn't want to say no, but he had an idea.
"ok fine I'll do it. ask them to cancel Jake's presentation, I need 15 more minutes"
Tharun walked up to the stage and all the retail investors in the audience who made millions buying RHD stock stood up and gave him a standing ovation... you cannot hear anything but firecracker like thunderous applause.
Tharun didn't stop them, he basked in the sound of the audience cooing and clapping calling his name and yelling "Tharoooon, we love you"
"I love you too...." the audience laughed and slowly began to settle down.
Tharun was about to start his speech and saw Tharini in the front seat, and he was looking for Vani in the crowd... and a second later he saw Vani walked in the front row and sat on the only empty seat next to Tharini. Tharun was puzzled and thought to himself since when did they became friends.
Tharun brought his focus back to the speech and he cleared his through...
"Good morning London, how ya'll doin" he purposely faced a Silicon Valley accent to get some giggles...
As he was about to give a speech he paused for a moment and started a completely unplanned topic.
"Women still get screwed over in myriad ways." He paused and looked at the entire auditorium full of people but there was an eery silence you can hear a pin drop.
"Yes, Women still get screwed over in myriad ways, It’s just that whereas before..." he paused
"it was an open and accepted part of society, today much of it is non-obvious and even unconscious. This is a tricky business because you’re no longer dealing with institutions—you’re dealing with people’s perceptions and brains. You have to confront belief systems and irrational assumptions and force people to unlearn things that they’ve “known” for decades. It’s a really, really hard thing to undertake."
"And the hardest part about it is that there’s no easy metric in the social arena for what is equal and what is not. If I fire three employees and two of them are women, is that equality? Or is that sexism? You can’t say unless you know why I fired them. And you can’t know why I fired them unless you can get inside my brain and understand my beliefs and motivations."
"So, today feminism has a measurement problem, it’s easy to measure whether boys and girls are receiving the same funding in colleges. It’s easy to see whether a man and woman are being paid appropriately for the same work. You just pull out your calculator and go to work."
Tharini realized what Tharun is doing... she wanted him to talk about feminism.. and he is probably taking it to the next level like he always does. She was fuming.
"But how do you measure social justice?" Tharun continued.
"If people like a brother more than their sister, is it because she’s a woman? Or is she just a shitty person? Or, more aptly, if a few women think a college mascot is scary and intimidating, is that legitimate ‘oppression’? What about overused adverbs? How the hell did we get here? Can I ask any more rhetorical questions?"
The crowd was completely quiet. They were surprised by the bold open speech by a world's best CEO.
Tharun kept going...
"In the past few decades, sexual violence has halved, and domestic violence has dropped by an astounding two-thirds.
"The point I'm trying to make is that a lot of progress has been made since feminism’s second wave in the 60s and 70s."
"But the problem is that, like I said, feminism, in the process of enacting all of the progress of the last 50 years, became more than a philosophy—it became an institution. And institutions are always primarily interested in sustaining themselves first and engaging with the world as it is second."
"Those stalwart feminist activists of the 60s and 70s who were at protests and burning their bras or whatever, many of them moved into academia. They got graduate degrees and wrote books and founded departments and held conferences and created political organizations and had fundraisers and started magazines. And pretty soon, feminism was no longer a cause for these people, it was their career. Their paychecks depended on there being patriarchy and oppression everywhere they looked. Their departments depended on it. Their professional careers and speaking fees depended on it. And so they found it."
Now Tharun's style is to complete the speech with a banger... which comes from his mouth next..."
"A company that truly empowers women shouldn't need a department dedicated to women empowerment, here at RHD it's our second nature."
Tharun pointed at Sheryl (his former CEO who gave him a blow job, when Tharun saved the company from a massive outage few years ago. Sheryl is now on the board with more than 50% ownership of the company and she always admired Tharun. She believed Tharun built this company from the ground up, he was more like the founder since it was all his ideas that made it into the product.
Tharun pointed at Sheryl, "Sheryl here taught me so much when I was the chief architect... she's empowered she didn't require a department dedicated for their empowerment"
He pointed at one of his EVP of Marketing... "Janet, here we hired her to run the operations, and now purely because of her hard work and all the improvements she made, I promoted her to run the entire marketing organization"
"Poorni, who comes from humble beginning is running the entire cloud infra with 600 people reporting to her"
"These women are self made... they didn't require an institution... and that's the environment I want to build in this company"
Finally he looked at Tharini, her face was fuming with anger....
"Tharini runs the women's at RHD organization and she's doing amazing work... so that will continue to happen but the point I am trying to make is that everyone men, women and everyone on between has the responsibility to make sure women in this company feels empowered. It's not just Tharini's department's job"
The crowd was pleasantly surprised how he ended the speech while, Tharini was little relieved but she was still so angry and fuming.
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