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... Spring! Mariah Carey is making a Christmas movie. The inside track on Washington politics. Be the first to know about new stories from Power Post. Sign up to follow, and we’ll e-mail you free updates as they’re published. You’ll receive free e-mail news updates each time a new story is published. You’re all set. By Rachel Podnar By Rachel Podnar March 21 at 7:28 PM Follow @rmpodnar. Stop the presses, Mariah Carey is coming out with a Christmas movie. My song is becoming a movie! You’re the first to hear about this exciting news! Follow @All IWant Movie for more updates. #All IWant Movie __link__/vb 1 j 75 e GZk. — Mariah Carey (@Mariah Carey) March 21, 2017. Mariah announcing a new Christmas movie in March is PEAK Mariah __link__/IEdd 0 c DFp W. — Stephen Leng (@steveleng) March 21, 2017. @steveleng tweeting after Mariah Carey announced Tuesday on Twitter that her classic holiday song ...

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... all referred to the team as a “family,” yet say their work was routinely impeded by Agrawal’s erratic behavior and refusal to shoulder blame for problems with the business while taking credit—often in very public forums—for its successes. This article is not as deeply reported as the Atlantic's, and the company denied much of what is described. To my mind, though, it's a clear example of the following: It's noble to have an idealistic mission. But translating that into a functioning organization and culture requires a lot of hard work and perhaps even drudgery (of the kind that Silicon Valley maybe doesn't appreciate-see above?). Defending Cash. Some years ago, the writer Malcolm Gladwell made the argument in a New Yorker article that people often conclude that if a technological development occurs later ...

The Woman Behind Period Underwear Wants To Make Bidets A Thing

... contraptions" that most think of (if they ever think of) bidets. "It's like the Nest meets i Phone of bidets," Agrawal says of Tushy, which is a small, $69 gadget that attaches to any regular American toilet. While there's little research comparing the health benefits of bidets vs. toilet paper, Agrawal's argument is compelling enough to have attracted half a million dollars in seed funding, led by venture capital firm Propulsion Capital and with participation from angel investors Luke Sherwin and Neil Parikh of Casper and Zachary Werner of Poln. Subscribe to the Broadsheet , Fortune’s newsletter for powerful women. Agrawal knows that toilets aren't exactly the sexiest industry, but that doesn't deter her—in fact, she welcomes the challenge. "It was so crazy to understand that in the $15- $19 billion period/feminine hygiene category there have been only three major ...

High Times' New Apparel Collection Makes Anti-trump Statment; Quicksilver's New Name

... for women, reportedly has a not-so-friendly working environment. According to Racked's report, 10 of the company's 35 employees have left due to the hostile atmosphere, poor benefits and the erratic behavior of the brand's founder, CEO and self-proclaimed "SHE-E-O," Miki Agrawal. Agrawal stepped down from her position as CEO last week, and the board of directors is currently seeking her replacement. However, she will retain the "SHE-E-O" title. Quicksilver Gets a New Name After Exiting Bankruptcy [ California Apparel News ]. Quicksilver Inc., the So Cal surf and skate brand which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2015, has officially changed its corporate name to Boardriders Inc. The brands under the company's umbrella — including Quicksilver, Roxy and DC Shoes — will all retain their names. The change comes as part of the turnaround process spearheaded by Oaktree Capital Management, which now owns a majority stake in the business. The first Boardriders store will open in Malibu this fall. Additionally, Boardriders ...

Thinx's Miki Agrawal Is Pro-woman But Her Mostly Female Staff Begs To Differ

... That's an oxymoron," said one source, referencing the newly launched Thinx Foundation, the company's nonprofit arm that seeks to provide safe spaces for girls in India and Sri Lanka. Meanwhile Thinx's "she-e-o"-a title she plans to maintain after stepping down as CEO-has been lauded for her work multiple times. Last week, she was nominated for a Shero Award at the first-annual Women's Choice Awards, and her accolades include being named one of Inc.'s Most Innovative Women in 2016 and 2017's Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. It is impossible to deny Agrawal's influential public persona. Even as Thinx's board of directors search for a "professional CEO" to fill her position, she will continue to be the face of the brand. It is unclear how these revelations will impact Thinx's performance or even Agrawal's role as a ...

Thinx Miki Agrawal Employee Complaints Feminist Excuse

... capitalism), it’s pretty easy these days to declare yourself one on a purely aesthetic basis. In January 2016, Agrawal told a writer from The Cut, “I only started relating to being a feminist, literally, right when I started my company.” In short: Develop an apparently inclusive and very sellable kind of feminism, and you, too, can join the coven. The following month, in defense of THINX’s suggestive ads, Agrawal was quoted in The New York Times as saying that “her product empowered women in ways that lewd ads already visible in the subways clearly did not.” Her point is a fair one (the saturation of plastic surgery advertisements on certain train lines is a little obnoxious) but the question again is whether THINX affiliates — admirers, customers, employees — might not be happier with ...

Leadership Shake-ups At Uber, Thinx, Classpass Prompt Unease

... defined at this point. The official messages:  Agrawal on Medium : "I have made a TON of mistakes along the way…We grew so quickly and I didn’t hire an HR person (it was hard to rationalize hiring an HR person at the time with only 15 employees and then all of a sudden we were 30 people)…I’m not the best suited for the operational CEO duties nor was it my passion to do so…We are now bringing in a professional CEO and an HR manager who will be putting much more rigid HR practices in place.". The media take:   Refinery 29 : "Whoever takes the reins at THINX obviously has their work cut out for them…HR is hardly a panacea…In the absence of structural checks, employees will take their cues for what is and isn’t acceptable from the top.". Class Pass. Who left: CEO Payal Kadakia is ceding her position to executive chairman Fritz Lanman, whose position she will now assume. The fitness-class subscription service saw a good deal of turmoil in 2016, first hiking the ...

Jonathan Simkhai Lands In L.a.; Thinx She-e-o Responds To Allegations Of Toxic Workplace

... that he had set up a makeshift design room in the house and a cutting room in the garage. Thinx "She-E-O" Responds to Allegations of Toxic Work Environment [ Medium ]. Miki Agrawal, founder, "She-E-O" and former CEO of Thinx period underwear, responded to an investigative piece on Racked that detailed employee issues with benefits and a hostile work environment caused by Agrawal's erratic behavior. On Friday, Agrawal penned a piece published on Medium titled "My Thinx Experience" in which she addressed the allegations made against her and "proudly" confirmed her exit as CEO. She addressed the company's lack of a human resources department ("We grew so quickly, and I didn’t hire an HR person. It was hard to rationalize hiring an HR person at the time with only 15 employees, and then all of a sudden, we were 30 ...

The 5 Most Shocking Allegations Brought Against Former Thinx Ceo Miki Agrawal

... her employees, and the exact means by which she was brought to female ejaculation.". Malone writes that the ex-CEO also "touched an employee's breasts and asked her to expose them, routinely changed clothes in front of employees, and conducted meetings via video-conference while in bed, apparently unclothed … At least once, she supposedly Face Timed into a meeting from the toilet.". The complaint states that it was Agrawal's "generally aggressive and retaliatory demeanor, position of authority, and style of management" that prevented Leibow from voicing her concerns more forcefully at the time. Other former employees who spoke to Malone for the story describe an environment in which dissent was discouraged and retaliation common. Here are five of the most shocking allegations against Agrawal. Inappropriate touching. Leibow says that soon after she began working at the company ...

The Maker Of Period Underwear Has Big Plans For Your Toilet

... has seen considerable success, booking tens of millions of sales since launching three years ago. These days, however, Agrawal is moving forward by looking slightly farther back. Tushy, a company that makes bidet attachments for toilet bowls, announced on Thursday that it secured $500,000 in seed funding. The round was led by Propulsion Capital, a San Diego, California venture capital firm, and includes investment from angels such as Neil Parikh and Luke Sherwin, co-founders of mattress tech startup Casper. "Miki generates incredible creative energy and a strong passion for breaking taboos and changing culture through storytelling," said Tikhon Bernstam, an investor with Propulsion, of his decision to invest in Tushy. For the uninitiated, a bidet is an alternative to toilet paper. It sprays a steady stream of water to rinse the user after he or she uses the toilet. The way Agrawal sees it, doing away with toilet paper has both environmental and health benefits. Consider that nearly 6 million tons of toilet paper, tissues and other sanitary products are ...

Ida Tin’s Battle To Build Clue, A Period-tracking App

... which she described as less expensive and frenetic than New York or the Bay Area. “I don’t want to accept that you can only build big companies out of Silicon Valley,” she said. While female tech C. E. O.s face a familiar set of obstacles around the world, the battle is especially tough in Berlin. The German capital increasingly bills itself as a growing international tech hub; it has lately spawned high-growth firms like Sound Cloud, a music-sharing platform, and Zalando, an e-commerce site. The city’s cheap rents and dynamic night life are potent draws. Yet, despite its reputation as a bastion of progressivism, Berlin struggles to nurture women founders. Just nine per cent of existing Berlin tech startups were founded by women, compared with an average of seventeen per cent across Europe. In Silicon Valley, that proportion is twenty-four per cent. The female founders I spoke with in Berlin pointed to national family-leave policies and local child-care customs that seem to promote stay-at-home mothering over a woman’s full-time career. (Chancellor Angela Merkel, who holds the country’s highest political office, has no children.) They also told me that  efforts  in Silicon ...

Thinx Promised A Feminist Utopia To Everyone But Its Employees

... is more than likely too broad to be enforceable in court. As for the jury waiver, she continues, “The constitution gives everyone the right to be heard by a jury of their peers, so whenever someone is making it a condition of employment to waive that right, it's a big deal.”. “We just felt like we either leave this company that we love and watch it burn, or we stay and try to keep doing good work and let her cultivate this persona so we could keep driving and keep growing this business.”. While sources say few, if any, employees signed the agreement out of concerns about the company’s motives, Perry says Thinx was operating well within their rights to issue it. “There's nothing illegal about it,” she says. “If anything, it's why are they suddenly doing this? It seems to raise a red flag in ...