A private spreadsheet naming “over a hundred” alleged sexual predators in Silicon Valley includes “prominent investors and businessmen,” sources tell The Post. One up-and-coming tech worker, who asked not to be identified, described how she was shocked when she saw the names on the list which she added her own account of sexual misconduct to. “Some of them were very prominent names, you know? People who were famous investors. Businessmen who were in the scene, I had seen them at parties before.”

The closely guarded list of tech predators serves as a way of warning others, multiple Silicon Valley insiders who have seen the list said. They noted it contains allegations of drugging, sex assaults and rapes and includes names of people at the biggest tech and Artificial Intelligence companies. However, verifying the authenticity of the accounts is another question. The source who had added to the document, who is in her 20s, says she was approached and invited to add her harrowing ordeal after she had mentioned it to others. “I met some women who ran the ‘whisper network,’ it has hundreds of cases,” she told The Post. “I only found out about it because I started asking around.”

Sources said many women in Silicon Valley feel unable to approach police when bad things happen to them at the hands of the tech elite and they fear retaliation from the powerful people they accuse, knowing speaking up could end their budding careers. “I was worried that if I tried for justice in my case and I lost, I would be blacklisted from every investor in town,” she said. Yehong Zhu is pictured on Friday, Dec. 4, 2020. Courtesy of Yehong Zhu Worrying incidents described to The Post by four sources took place in so called “hacker houses,” where people who share a kitchen or party invitations may also be sharing investments, working together or making introductions to a future employer. Those overlapping relationships can become awkward when the lines are blurred. A second insider speaking on background described to The Post a predatory approach from some males in which friendship is used to get close to someone, learn their vulnerabilities and then push past boundaries. The insider claimed some tech predators seek people to manipulate — preying on the isolated or vulnerable. Often these are younger girls or those who have recently arrived in the country or Silicon Valley hoping to make a name for themselves. The insider also said the opposite is also true — some target successful, independent people whom an abuser would regard as a “trophy.”

A view of one of the Silicon Valley tech hacker houses. AGI House / X “Some predators want the shiniest star, the harder you are to take down, the more powerful they feel. It’s a conquest,” they said. The insider noted a culture which celebrates founders, who made their careers refusing to accept rejection in business, can become dangerous when the same is applied to social situations. Neither the people causing harm nor those being harmed are necessarily one gender, the insider emphasized. Yehong Zhu, who has lived in several hacker houses, said she was also a victim of rape. In her case, the person she accused was someone she had considered a friend. Yehong Zhu with friends at a tech party. Courtesy of Yehong Zhu She filed a December 2021 police report accusing the person, a former member of San Francisco “hacker house” Genesis, of rape and assault. Zhu, founder of the app Zette, says the man fled, and has not been located or arrested, despite other people in their friendship circle keeping in contact with him. “I kept saying no [to him],” she told The Post. After the alleged rape, she says, a female friend worried aloud about the damage her accusation would do to his reputation. A house organizer discouraged her from going to the police, then proposed a committee and a vote when Zhu wanted him removed. Jeremy Nixon, who has established tech group homes in an...