Cougar night Archives - The Grassy Road

The oldest profession in the world is alive and well in Silicon Valley

Of course we've all been agog at the Ellen Pao trial. Silicon Valley loves nothing more than to talk about itself. The self-obsession goes hand in hand with ego, intellect and ambition. But an unexpected side effect of the discussion of the blow-by-blow of the trial is now, for a while, everyone will be looking for covert sexism. And nowhere better to find it than cougar night at the Rosewood hotel in Menlo Park. This is not a new phenomenon. I blogged about it in 2011 after spending an amused [...]

Cougar night busted in Silicon Valley!

The bar at the Rosewood Hotel, at the end of the fabled Sand Hill Road of venture capital fame, has been building up a reputation for a while now as a pick-up joint. I wrote a blog about the bar scene more than a year ago now, not realizing I was seeing the myth develop in front of my eyes. But last night, as we sat at the outside bar watching the sun go down with some good friends, we commented how odd it was that a bar and restaurant [...]