TechCrunch will be dropping RadiumOne as a Disrupt New York hackathon sponsor. As Leena Rao writes, we simply couldn’t sleep at night knowing that we were supporting and promoting a company led by someone who does not share our values on the issue of domestic abuse.
In this decision our team is united, both on the editorial and the business side. We will not condone, support, or deal with proven bad actors in our community. Their business is not welcome on our pages, at our hackathons or at our events.
Alexia Tsotsis is a big nerd who is working on something under the radar. Before this she was at business school and before that she was at TechCrunch.
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