After her open letter to Yelp’s CEO, writer and comedian Talia Jane was fired for blowing the whistle on the treatment of “lower tier” employees in Silicon Valley, and faced a non-stop barrage of personal attacks and accusations of “millennial entitlement.” Two months later, Yelp raised wages company-wide for the employees of their food delivery app who could barely afford to eat.

2016 Patrons

Special thanks to Asana, BackerKit, Dropbox, Figma, GitHub, Instrument, Intel, Intercom, Knight Foundation, MailChimp, Next Draft, Slack, and WordPress.com for their support. XOXO would not be possible without them.

Community Patrons

We’d also like to thank Cotton Bureau, Scout Books, Seamless, and Stephouse for extending their generosity to us this year in producing XOXO.