Say Hello to the man behind one of the world’s oldest social networks and is the ‘Boys will be boys’ culture of Silicon Valley crumbling?

Just for you - the best reads from YourStory Long before the ubiquitous blue and white took over our social lives, deciding our popularity and making it okay to share every mundane detail of our lives, one website allowed us to connect to people and tell others if they were "Trustworthy", "Cool", or even worthy of being on our “Crush list”. [At its peak, Orkut had more than 300 million users, before shutting down in 2014.]( Alok Soni sits down for a chat with Orkut Büyükkökten, the man who created the pioneering social networking site and is now planning his fourth site, hello.com. A dark cloud hangs over sunny Silicon Valley. [Behind the success stories, innovation, and progress, a culture of sexism, gender discrimination, and misogyny is being uncovered.]( While it was rampant for years, with only isolated incidents getting any coverage, Susan J Fowler’s blog on the culture of sexism and harassment at Uber opened the floodgates for complaints that would topple the poster boys of innovation. Sindhu Kashyap finds out if it’s finally time to end the Valley’s ‘bro culture’. When Rupam Das’ father sadly passed away from a heart attack, despite doctor’s assurances that he would make it, [he decided that he needed to do something that would improve the way ECG signals are diagnosed.]( Aparajita Choudhury meets the innovator whose IBM Watson-powered Lyfas enables doctors to measure required parameters and do real-time and cloud-based analysis of data. Mental healthcare continues to be an issue all over the world and particularly in countries where there is significant stigma attached and strides are only beginning to be made. [Sachin Choudhary founded TrustCircle, a comprehensive a digital health startup designed to improve mental healthcare]( to address the gap in mental healthcare after his family struggled to find support for his own brother was diagnosed with schizophrenia at the age of 12. Shinjini Chowdhury meets the man, who is now taking free tests to Africa. The issue of sexual harassment at workplaces has recently been in focus. [YourStory and Kalaari Capital have launched a survey on sexual harassment]( to understand what are the challenges of making workplaces safer. [Take the survey]( today to so that we can work “Together For Change”. YourStory Media, 259, 2nd Main, 6th Cross, Indiranagar, Bengaluru, Karnataka, Bangalore, Karnataka 560038, India You may [unsubscribe]( or [change your contact details]( at any time.