Silicon Valley sex assault list with over 100 names circulated, warning female tech workers of predators to avoid

A private spreadsheet naming “over a hundred” alleged sexual predators in Silicon Valley includes “prominent investors and businessmen,” sources tell The Post.One Harvard-educated worker, who asked not to be identified, described how she was shocked when she saw the names on the list which she added her own account of sexual misconduct to.“Some of them were very prominent names, you know? People who were famous investors.Businessmen who were in the scene, I had seen them at parties before.”The closely guarded list of tech predators serves as a way of warning others, multiple Silicon Valley insiders who have seen the list said.

They noted it contains allegations of drugging, sex assaults and rapes and includes names of people at the biggest tech and Artificial Intelligence companies. However, verifying the authenticity of the accounts is another question.The source who had added to the document, who is in her 20s, says she was approached and invited to add her harrowing ordeal after she had mentioned it to others.“I met some women who ran the ‘whisper network,’ it has hundreds of cases,” she told The Post.“I only found out about it because I started asking around.”Sources said many women in Silicon Valley feel unable to approach police when bad things happen to them at the hands of the tech elite and they fear retaliation from the powerful people they accuse, knowing speaking up could end their budding careers.“I was worried that if I tried for justice in my case and I lost, I would be blacklisted from every investor in town,” she said.Worrying incidents described to The Post by four sources took place in so called “hacker houses,” where people who share a kitchen or party invitations may also be sharing investments, working together or making introductions to a future employer.

Those overlapping relationships can become awkward when the lines are blurred.A second insider speaking on background described to The Post a predatory ap...