Good morning, Broadsheet readers! UPenn and Harvard presidents are in damage control mode after a Congressional hearing, former OpenAI board member Helen Toner explains why Sam Altman was fired, and a startup founder supports women engineers in Palestine. Have a restful weekend.
- Women in tech. In the fall of 2013, Iliana Montauk was in Gaza for the first time. She heard sonic booms overhead from warplanes and watched contractors install film on windows in case of bombings. Meanwhile, 60 startup founders pitched her their ideas. "Please don't get distracted by that," she remembers them telling her. "We're used to that—it happens here all the time."
