Susan Blanchet discusses the University of Washington intellectual property that served as the foundational technology for her startup, Origen Air.
Insight
Blanchett: Good leaders should never have to fire employees
“Because the book said, like, good leaders should never have to fire someone. If you have to fire someone, you're the one who has done something wrong. Like, as a leader, it's my responsibility to make sure that my staff are performing, and if they aren't, I'm …”
Assertion Partly supported
Blanchett: Origen Air's purifier kills COVID in under four seconds
“This is part of an air purifier, which can actually kill COVID in under four seconds. And take out carcinogens from the air.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Blanchet's employer spent eight months seeking cause before firing her
“They'd gone through it for hundreds of hours, my files, my hours, And could not find anything wrong. And it culminated in about nine months later, getting called into office and being let go without cause. So they tried for eight months to find cause to fire m…”
Assertion Supported
Blanchett: Regular indoor plants do not clean the air
“Plants actually don't clean the air. We think they do, but they don't.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Blanchet found no Canadian precedents for female-on-female workplace discrimination
“And the sad thing, I could not find one case and I looked for weeks and hours every day of a female on female discrimination in the legal, in the law world. There is not a case. Well, I found one actually. I found one not in Canada, in the United States, and t…”
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Blanchet's solo legal case was reassigned to nine staff after her leave
“When I came back 10 months later, there were four lawyers, three legal assistants, and two legal secretaries on the same file. The one I did by myself for two years.”