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Shkreli and Taylor Swift comment


If anyone wants to hear his Wu-Tang Clan album, of which there is only one copy, he has a price for that, too. “I’m not going to play it for no reason,” he said. “If Taylor Swift wants to come over and s— my d— I’ll play it for her.”

Shkreli and Turing Pharmaceuticals, the firm he leads, did not respond to a request for comment.

“The bottom line is, when you look at his choice of language and the way he describes himself and others, it’s very hard to understand how this person is the chief executive officer of a company,” says Lauren Rikleen, an attorney, author, and president of the Rikleen Institute for Strategic Leadership. “A CEO who is completely uninterested in the impact of his words is bad for business.”

Rikleen, who has often written about gender issues in business, adds that Shkreli’s comment about Taylor Swift should be especially troubling to his business partners. “His disdain for women comes through in that comment,” she says. “You don’t make that kind of comment unless you have a complete antipathy towards women, you just don’t, you wouldn’t think of saying it. So, at what point do his investors say, ‘Is this who I trust to run this business?’ That’s the question that should be asked amidst all this publicity he’s getting.”

Shkreli has shown that he isn’t bothered by any hate sent his way on social media. He proudly tweeted the HipHopDX story, with one of his own quotes from the article.
http://fortune.com/2015/12/16/martin-shkreli-taylor-swift/