The CEO of a New York-based metaverse company has been accused of sexually harassing a pair of African-American subordinates — including a former NFL player who claims she subjected him to bizarre come-ons and prodded him to have sex with co-workers.
Teyo Johnson — a former tight end for the Oakland Raiders who also played ball as an undergraduate at Stanford University — claims Everyrealm CEO Janine Yorio presided over a toxic work environment where she made lewd references about employees’ sex lives as well as racial slurs directed at black employees, including one remark threatening to “trade” Johnson if he didn’t perform in his job.
In a lawsuit filed in Manhattan federal court against Yorio and Everyrealm — whose backers include the Silicon Valley venture firm Andreessen Horowitz and which has tapped celebrity endorsers including Paris Hilton, Will Smith and The Weeknd — Johnson also alleges that he was pressured into “sexually harassing games” in which coworkers and clients were encouraged to sleep with each other.
In March, Johnson alleged that Yorio told him about a “sex-related game that she encouraged employees to play” during a business trip to the SXSW (South By Southwest) festival in Austin, Texas. “KYP,” which stands for “know your personnel,” or “KYC” — “know your client” — were “euphemisms for having sex or hooking up with co-workers and business partners,” according to the lawsuit.
Yorio told Johnson that “the way to pay the game” was to “get laid by a...
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