I've known Marc Canter for a long time, but I don't know anything about Ms. Dent or her interactions with Marc.
However, he has so many other highly effective behavioral techniques for making people go away, that it sounds pretty fishy that he would just happen to deploy that particular technique in that particular situation for that particular person.
If he dislikes your ideas, he'll usually simply tell you directly and loudly, not hit on you to make you go away.
So I have a hard time buying his explanation.
But I would not describe him as a rich powerful VC holding money and power over the women he harasses.
If what she says is true (which I don't know and he denies), he may be a sexist pig contributing to the toxic environment for women (which is wrong and should be called out and condemned), but he's certainly not in the same category as Dave McClure and Justin Caldbeck.
Absolutely! He's just not in such a disproportionate position of power over the women he harasses as Dave McClure and Justin Caldbeck are.
He has his white male privilege, magisterial facade, and all that, but not millions of dollars and an old boys investors network behind him. But that definitely doesn't excuse his behavior. And his explanation is bizarre.
However, he has so many other highly effective behavioral techniques for making people go away, that it sounds pretty fishy that he would just happen to deploy that particular technique in that particular situation for that particular person.
If he dislikes your ideas, he'll usually simply tell you directly and loudly, not hit on you to make you go away.
So I have a hard time buying his explanation.
But I would not describe him as a rich powerful VC holding money and power over the women he harasses.
If what she says is true (which I don't know and he denies), he may be a sexist pig contributing to the toxic environment for women (which is wrong and should be called out and condemned), but he's certainly not in the same category as Dave McClure and Justin Caldbeck.