In early 2017, her blog post on sexual harassment at the company was widely shared and ultimately led to the ouster of Uber founder and CEO Travis Kalanick.
[citation needed] Rigetti prepared herself to take college entrance exams without high school and was accepted with a full scholarship to Arizona State University, where she wanted to pursue astronomy.
[citation needed] She worked as a physics research assistant during her time at Penn, but was forced out after befriending a fellow student named Tim.
[2] Later in 2015, she joined data infrastructure company PubNub as a DevOps engineer, where her boss made statements that led Rigetti to believe he "truly, deeply, passionately hated women".
[5] The fallout ultimately forced Uber founder and CEO Travis Kalanick to resign,[5] and a subsequent backlash against sexual harassment in Silicon Valley, including the removal of tech investors Dave McClure and Justin Caldbeck.
In August 2017, she petitioned the United States Supreme Court to consider her experience in its decision on whether employees can forfeit rights to collective litigation in their employment contracts.
[9] Rigetti was one of five women featured on the cover of Time magazine's Person of the Year issue for 2017, as representative of "The Silence Breakers", for reporting on the sexual harassment she experienced at Uber.