Sexual harassment lawsuit filed against co-founders of pilot ai and investor nea Rachel moore, former chief product officer of computer vision startup pilot ai, is suing its co-founders, cto robert elliot english and ceo jonathan su, for sexual harassment, discrimination, and artificial pornography. Intelligence (ai-porn-xxx.com) retribution and wrongful dismissal. Human resources supplier pilot ai trinet and concrete investor series a nea are also listed in the lawsuit filed today in the san francisco supreme court. The plaintiff, a 24-year-old stanford master's graduate, is seeking a jury trial.
The lawsuit alleges that su and english created a hostile work environment tinged with sexually inappropriate comments, including discussion of pornography, english's sexual exploits and that he "participated in an anal workshop on the burning man led by a famous porn star." Only while moore agreed to appear in rude comments, she received a new status jointly and an increase in salary in the amount of 20 thousand dollars.
English allegedly later invited moore to his personal profile, closed the door, lowered his pants and in the mind of his former lady and at first refused to let moore go. According to the lawsuit, for denying his development, he began to take revenge on her in the office. There it is verified that moore reported the event to su, who dismissed the allegations, calling the english "sexually unsatisfied". There is a position that su encouraged moore to invite english to a meeting in order to resolve the issue, which the screen-partition ultimately refused, fearing for security.
Su later urged moore not to file official statement. Report it to english's office, because, according to the lawsuit, the landing page is capable of "destroying the company." She did so, prompting the wilmerhale law firm to investigate. Moore only agreed to participate in the problem of circumstances, if the law firm remains neutral and does not always appear to act as an adviser to pilot ai. Noted that nea's rick young, who is on the board of directors, led the investigation.
The lawsuit called the investigation "a complete sham and a front." Nea allegedly took the position of refusing to disclose the investigative report, claiming attorney-client confidentiality. Claim, and it was yang who ultimately revealed the description of the report, which proved the pants down incident, but revealed that there was no sexuality there, and there were never any repercussions for the founders. After the investigation, moore allegedly asked for leave not to return to the office, in which she needed to report to the defendants. When requests for additional leave were ignored, she inquired about her time pressure status, and allegedly stopped getting paid or getting logged into the firm's systems and concluded that she was fired.
The allegations include service for using . Sexual harassment, harassment in a hostile work environment, gender discrimination, retaliation, failure to prevent or correct harassment, aiding and abetting harassment, wrongful dismissal, intentional infliction of emotional distress, non-payment of wages, fines for term aspirations and instability of labor and business endeavors - codes.
Requests for comments from english, su, pilot ai, nea and trinet were not returned prior to the posting episode. Moore's law firm arena hoffman llp released this statement to techcrunch from supervised attorney ron arena:
According to the complaint, ms. Pilot the ai founders discussed anal workshops, boasted about sexual victories on tinder, called the server "deep head" and let executives pull down their pants in a meeting and call ms. Moore's shoes "nothing boots." Were ignored, and in the end swept aside in a bogus investigation - once she declined the ceo's order to meet her pants-down boss alone at breakfast.