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Ellen Huet

Features Writer, Bloomberg News · 1 appearance on the record.

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Ellen Huet is an investigative reporter at Bloomberg News covering Silicon Valley culture, startups, and group dynamics. She is the author of Empire of Orgasm, which exposed the wellness company OneTaste, and the host of Bloomberg's Foundering podcast series.

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6 assertions · 4 insights · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 6 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 5 are resolved, and 1 names no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

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Assertion Supported
Huet: A federal jury convicted OneTaste leaders of forced labor conspiracy
“At the end of that trial, you know, a jury unanimously decided to convict Nicole and Rachel of this crime, and so the two of them are in a jail in Brooklyn, awaiting sentencing, which could come later this year or early next, and they could face up to 20 years…”
Ellen Huet Nov 26, 2025 ▶ 33:04 Communal Living, Sex, And Silicon Valley's Groupthink Problem — With Ellen Huet

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Insight
Huet: Successful cults and successful startups both rely on genuine core wisdom
“I mean, every successful cult has at its center, like, a significant amount of wisdom, because otherwise the teachings would never, like, get off the ground. And, you know, a lot of the, like, successful companies, even if they might lean heavily on, like, myt…”
Ellen Huet Nov 26, 2025 ▶ 56:11 Communal Living, Sex, And Silicon Valley's Groupthink Problem — With Ellen Huet
Insight
Huet: Silicon Valley's "agency" obsession stems from personal transformation seminars
“What's interesting to me about agency being popular in my view, among a certain like circle of tech people is that. Agency is a different way of saying this idea of like, oh, you should consider yourself like radically responsible for your life experience and …”
Ellen Huet Nov 26, 2025 ▶ 11:53 Communal Living, Sex, And Silicon Valley's Groupthink Problem — With Ellen Huet
Assertion Supported
Huet: A federal jury convicted OneTaste leaders of forced labor conspiracy
“At the end of that trial, you know, a jury unanimously decided to convict Nicole and Rachel of this crime, and so the two of them are in a jail in Brooklyn, awaiting sentencing, which could come later this year or early next, and they could face up to 20 years…”
Ellen Huet Nov 26, 2025 ▶ 33:04 Communal Living, Sex, And Silicon Valley's Groupthink Problem — With Ellen Huet
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Huet: Former AI doomers admit the movement closely mirrors a doomsday cult
“And when I spoke to some people who had spent time really deep in the like Doomer mindset, they described it to me in their own words as a cult. They said like, oh, it has a lot of parallels to a doomsday cult.”
Ellen Huet Nov 26, 2025 ▶ 39:24 Communal Living, Sex, And Silicon Valley's Groupthink Problem — With Ellen Huet
Insight
Huet: Silicon Valley socially rewards ideological fervor, making founders susceptible to groupthink
“Like, of course, humans everywhere want to have an idea ideology and something to believe in, but I do think in Silicon Valley, it's like heightened. And so this idea that you might be driven by an ideology or a belief is socially rewarded here in a way that t…”
Ellen Huet Nov 26, 2025 ▶ 46:13 Communal Living, Sex, And Silicon Valley's Groupthink Problem — With Ellen Huet
Assertion Supported
Huet: OneTaste weaponized "radical responsibility" to shame members out of victimhood
“Nicole and other leaders of the group would share this philosophy that basically, yeah, you were a hundred percent responsible for your experience, your life. And the flip side of that is they would also say that to have a victim mentality was Kind of like loo…”
Ellen Huet Nov 26, 2025 ▶ 33:56 Communal Living, Sex, And Silicon Valley's Groupthink Problem — With Ellen Huet
Insight
Huet: Cults attract smart people by offering awe and exclusive early knowledge
“And I think keeping in mind that another really, really important and sometimes underestimated aspect of a cult is that Being part of a cult gives you access to a sense of awe and wonder, and one of the characteristics is also the sense that you have discovere…”
Ellen Huet Nov 26, 2025 ▶ 42:08 Communal Living, Sex, And Silicon Valley's Groupthink Problem — With Ellen Huet
Assertion Supported
Huet: Anthropic spun out of OpenAI purely due to ideological divergence
“It became different enough that obviously Anthropic or like the original founders of Anthropic decided like this isn't going in a direction we like. We're going to spin off and do something that started off again with the real glue and motivation being this id…”
Ellen Huet Nov 26, 2025 ▶ 50:07 Communal Living, Sex, And Silicon Valley's Groupthink Problem — With Ellen Huet
Assertion Supported
Huet: Tim Ferriss and Gwyneth Paltrow endorsed the fringe OneTaste practice
“It was like endorsed by Tim Ferriss, Gwyneth Paltrow, Khloe Kardashian, like kind of got pretty big mainstream success for an obviously fringe practice.”
Ellen Huet Nov 26, 2025 ▶ 16:27 Communal Living, Sex, And Silicon Valley's Groupthink Problem — With Ellen Huet
Assertion Supported
Huet: OneTaste charged up to $30,000 for advanced lifestyle intensive courses
“If you got deeper, it would be courses about, like, how to live your life in alignment with the philosophies of orgasmic meditation, and these courses could cost upwards of 20 or 30,000 dollars, and they might be, like, two-week intensives or this kind of thin…”
Ellen Huet Nov 26, 2025 ▶ 23:55 Communal Living, Sex, And Silicon Valley's Groupthink Problem — With Ellen Huet

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
Communal Living, Sex, And Silicon Valley's Groupthink Problem — With Ellen Huet Nov 26, 2025 39m
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