Article 1CJCB I'll 'make their life miserable': tech CEO bullies low-income vendors by his home

I'll 'make their life miserable': tech CEO bullies low-income vendors by his home

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Sam Levin in San Francisco
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The comments mark the latest example of a male tech CEO making aggressive, insensitive and tone-deaf remarks about people less fortunate than them

A Silicon Valley tech CEO has sparked backlash for comments slamming local fruit vendors, saying he would "make their life miserable" and "destroy" their produce if they were stationed near his house - making him the latest wealthy Californian entrepreneur to publicly rail against low-income people.

Mark Woodward, CEO of software company Invoca, published - and later deleted - a Facebook post saying that he would have no qualms about aggressively harassing unauthorized fruit sellers in his neighborhood if they got near his home.

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