
Alexandra Rogers remembers the evening vividly. She was standing in a small hallway, waiting for the restroom, at Hi Dive bar in San Francisco. She and her sales colleagues at Carta, the equity management startup last valued at $7.4 billion, were about to head over to a Giants game, where Carta had treated its sales team to tickets.
Rogers says she was leaning against the wall near the bathroom, with the back of her foot propped back against it. Her knee was jutted out at about a 45-degree angle, she says. That was when she alleges that Carta’s chief revenue officer, Jeff Perry, walked by, slapped his hand on her leg, squeezed it, then kept walking.