Vidya Narayanan, a former Google employee and serial entrepreneur, has ignited a debate on social media after sharing a video detailing her exit from a company she co-founded and led for over a decade. In a candid Instagram post titled “From founding to getting replaced as a CEO: Extras,” Narayanan claimed she was removed from her CEO role solely because she is a “brown woman.” Advertisement

Narayanan, who worked at Google between 2012 and 2014, went on to co-found three companies and served as CEO at two of them. In her video, she alleges that the board of one of her companies believed her race and gender would be a liability when courting top-tier investors.

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She recalled specific incidents from that period that underscored the challenges she faced. One par

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