reed albergotti is a reporter with the information and joins us now about way by phone. broke this story last last week. and there's been quite a lot of chatter across the vc strooi industry since then. a decease ency pledge. what is unique about this story besides the fact that three women agreed to be named in spes fig the allegations ghens investor >> i think the reason the story really resonated and caused such a stir in silicon valley is that this isn't just an isolated incident this is a widespread problem in a affects a lot of people. i think up until now there's been kind of a don't ask, don't tell policy in the valley about this type of behavior. and, you know, what we did is find a story where we had six women who detailed the stories to us, a seventh case that we also found out about and three of them went on the record so there is absolutely no way you can refute the claims. and, you know -- >> reed, can i interrupt you >> yes. >> what are the claims for people just waking up and haven't ha heard of this story, what happened >> these women all said that in th