Name: The problem at Pinterest
Uploaded: 2020-10-13
Duration: 2 min 30 s
Description: Former COO Francoise Brougher is suing the company, alleging gender discrimination.

 KRISTEN BELLSTROM: You were COO and number two at Pinterest until this spring. And you are now suing the company, saying that you were fired because you complained about gender discrimination. You also wrote a Medium post in which you talked in some detail about your experience at Pinterest. And some of the things that you talked about there were being paid less than some of your male colleagues, being shut out of key decisions, key meetings. Even receiving sort of gender oriented feedback in your review. Now, I know you have a lawsuit in process right now, so you can't get into every single detail. But I do want to ask you a little bit about some of what you experienced at Pinterest. Can you tell us about a couple of those moments, and you know, maybe particularly something that made you say, you know, we have a real problem here. FRANCOISE BROUGHER: Yeah. And I should start by the beginning. When I was hired, I was extremely excited to jump into [INAUDIBLE].. If you think about it, it's a platform 70% of views are women. And my initial conversation were really good. I know consumer internet quite well from my experience at Google and Square. I have managed this type of go to market team for many, many years now. And the company was going to go IPO. So for me, was a perfect company to join and bring my leadership skill to the team. Unfortunately, it didn't live to my expectation. And from the get go, you know, you start seeing little sign and cracks in the cultures that are tough to identify. There is a lot of microaggression that happen. I talk about in my blog post so there's a meeting after the meeting where in a culture you actually do not understand where the decisions are being made. And you realize after a while this is the same group of men and makes a decision, and you always find out after the fact. I think when things became more public is when we did prepare for the IPO it was a lot of work. I was excluded from the roadshow. So that was the first public exclusion. And then it continued. You know, I started being not invited for board meetings. So all the signs starting to line up until I went and complained, and then got fired. 

The problem at Pinterest

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Former COO Francoise Brougher is suing the company, alleging gender discrimination.