Private Spreadsheet Names Over 100 Alleged Silicon Valley Predators, Allegations Remain Unverified

A private spreadsheet listing more than 100 men accused of sexual misconduct is circulating quietly among women in Silicon Valley's tech and venture-capital world, according to the New York Post, which broke the story and is the original source behind nearly every other outlet now covering it.

The document reportedly names prominent investors, startup founders and people connected to major AI companies. The allegations recorded range from unwanted physical advances and non-consensual sharing of intimate images to drugging, sexual assault and rape, according to News18 and the Post's reporting.

One tech worker in her 20s told the Post she was stunned by how many recognizable names appeared on it. "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," she said. She was later invited to add her own account after discussing her experience with other women. "I met some women who ran the 'whisper network,' it has hundreds of cases," she told the paper. "I only found out about it because I started asking around."

Why Women Say They Don't Go to Police

Multiple women told the Post they avoid formal channels, police reports or public accusations because the men named wield outsized influence over funding, board seats and career trajectories. One woman said she feared losing everything if a complaint failed to stick. "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.

An unnamed insider described a Silicon Valley culture where housing, investment, employment and social life overlap so tightly that walking away from an accused person can mean losing a business partner, landlord or professional reference all at once. The source said friendships are sometimes used to build trust before boundaries are crossed, and that recent transplants to the US and younger women are viewed as more isolated and vulnerable targets.

Hacker Houses Under Scrutiny

Several of the incidents described reportedly occurred in "hacker houses," communal residences where founders, engineers and investors live, party and network together. Futurism noted that a house called AGI House has had 37 incidents logged by police since 2022, a figure tied to a separate New York Times investigation into hacker-house culture.

Yehong Zhu, founder of the app Zette, has spoken publicly about accusing a former resident of a San Francisco hacker house called Genesis of rape and assault. Zhu filed a police report in December 2021, saying the man was someone she had considered a friend and that she had repeatedly told him no. She said people in their shared business and social circle refused to help her locate him after he fled, telling the Post, "We invested together. We did business together." As of this reporting, the man has not been arrested or located, according to the Post. An attorney for Genesis founder Jeremy Nixon told the Post that Nixon was unaware of the specific situation Zhu described but would support law enforcement and prioritize safety. Zhu has separately shared another woman's account of an alleged incident at a different community house, The Muse.

An Unverified List Naming Real People

The existence of a spreadsheet is not proof of what it alleges. The Post's own reporting acknowledged that verifying the authenticity of individual accounts is a separate question from the list's existence, and that multiple versions of similar lists have circulated in the Bay Area for years, partly because of worries that unverified claims could spread alongside legitimate ones.

A document assembled anonymously, with no cross-examination, no due process and no legal standard of evidence, can just as easily damage an innocent person's reputation as it can warn women away from a genuine threat. None of the outlets reporting on this, including the Times of India, NDTV, Free Press Journal, News18, Inshorts and Futurism, appear to have independently verified the spreadsheet's contents beyond repeating the Post's account; they are functionally amplifying one original report rather than confirming it with separate reporting.

Women describe a real fear of retaliation for going through formal channels in an industry built on personal networks and concentrated capital. At the same time, a crowdsourced list naming specific individuals, without any of them having been charged, tried or convicted of the conduct alleged, is not a substitute for accountability through courts or law enforcement.

Zhu's case remains the clearest example of the gap between allegation and resolution: a police report was filed nearly five years ago, and the accused has still not been arrested. Whether any of the more than 100 other names on the spreadsheet will ever face a formal investigation, or whether the document remains confined to private warnings passed between women, is still an open question.