Pinterest’s Culture Challenge: The Information’s Tech Briefing

The subject of gender discrimination in Silicon Valley is back in the news after former Pinterest COO Francoise Brougher published a post on Medium about her experiences dealing with sexism at the company. The detailed post is a little reminiscent of Susan Fowler’s Uber missive of a few years ago—and it may have as much of an impact on Pinterest as Fowler’s had on Uber.

To give a sense of her experience, Brougher says she was excluded from the executive team presenting at Pinterest’s analyst day ahead of the company’s IPO—even though, as Brougher said, she was the only member of the executive team to have taken a company public before. And when the company’s IPO filing came out, Brougher learned that her stock compensation vested much more slowly than other senior, male executives.