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Ellen Pao keeps gender discussion going
Experts are saying that the Ellen Pao vs. Kleiner Perkins gender-discrimination case was probably a wake-up call for the tech and venture industries, Julia Love wrote for the Mercury News over the...
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Matt Murphy, the VC who advocated Ellen Pao’s firing, is leaving Kleiner Perkins
Matt Murphy, the venture capitalist who was instrumental in the decision to fire Ellen Pao from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, is leaving the prestigious firm. Murphy mentioned his departure...
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Marc Benioff tackles the “third rail,” gender disparity in pay at Salesforce
Marc Benioff is the latest tech CEO to tackle the issue of the pay disparity between men and women at his company. He told the Huffington Post that he is doing a review of salaries of all 16,000...
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Ellen Pao asks court to dismiss Kleiner’s claims for $1 million in trial costs
Ellen Pao is contesting Kleiner Perkins’ claim that she is on the hook for reimbursing the firm’s nearly $1 million bill in legal fees incurred during the five-week trial brought by Pao’s $16 million...
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Reddit, Ellen Pao under fire after banning 5 online discussion groups
Some Reddit users and others are blasting Ellen Pao, the interim CEO of Reddit, for banning five online discussion groups that the firm say violate its policy on harassment of individuals. On Thursday...
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Ellen Pao sees progress, but not enough, among women in tech
Ellen Pao applauded the rising number of women CEOs at tech companies and women investing in tech, but lamented that they were too often hidden and didn’t receive the same recognition as their male...
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Kleiner Perkins awarded $276K in Pao case, partner John Doerr says firm is...
On Thursday, Ellen Pao got the final word from a San Francisco Superior Court judge that she will have to pay $276,000 to cover a portion of Kleiner Perkins’ costs for the sex-discrimination trial that...
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Kleiner Perkins releases firm’s gender diversity report: 1/5 of investors are...
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers has published a gender breakdown of the firm’s employees just four days after top partner John Doerr told Bloomberg that the firm would be more transparent about...
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Petition to remove Reddit CEO Ellen Pao reaches more than 160,000 supporters
An online petition to oust Reddit interim CEO Ellen Pao now has more than 160,000 supporters, with more than 100,000 signing in the past few days. Moderators and users were outraged after the firing of...
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Startup capitalizes on Reddit revolt with T-shirt campaign to oust Ellen Pao
The uprising to oust Ellen Pao from Reddit’s top office has moved from the cyberworld to the material world, with one Nashville, Tenn., startup capitalizing on the Internet revolt with a new T-shirt...
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Blame on Ellen Pao misplaced?
“Ding, dong, the witch is dead!” That’s an exclamation several of the particularly vocal Reddit members used to celebrate the resignation of CEO Ellen Pao on Friday. But maybe their witch hunt was...
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As new CEO, Steve Huffman pledges to ban ‘dark side’ of Reddit community
It appears the so-called “censorship” Ellen Pao was accused of at Reddit will continue under the reign of her successor, Steve Huffman. Huffman, the new CEO who took over Reddit after Pao’s resignation...
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Reddit needs a time-out
Maybe it’s time to stop talking about Reddit. How about just for the weekend? That might require making the whole place go dark and reset all 9,000 forums? Whoever comes back on Monday and obeys a new...
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Stephen Hawking will do a Reddit AMA starting Monday
Stephen Hawking, the renowned physicist and cosmologist, will host his first Ask-Me-Anything on Internet discussion site Reddit. In an unusual twist, this AMA will last for just more than a week; most...
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Reddit turmoil continues: 4th senior female employee departs
In less than a month, four high-ranking women, including the CEO, have left Reddit. The most recent employee to depart is Jessica Moreno, Reddit’s Director of Community, who had been at the company for...
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Ellen Pao appeals judge’s order to pay Kleiner Perkins $276,000
Former Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers partner Ellen Pao has said she plans to appeal a judge’s ruling that directed her to pay the venture capital firm nearly $276,000 after she lost a bitter and...
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Ellen Pao will not appeal verdict in sex-discrimination case against Kleiner...
Ellen Pao, the former partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, announced Thursday that she would not appeal the jury verdict last spring that found that the venture firm did not discriminate...
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John Doerr apologizes for joke about the diversity of Kleiner Perkins’ recent...
John Doerr, the venerable venture capitalist at Kleiner Perkins, apologized for a comment he made about the names of recent “diverse” hires at the venture firm: @kimmaicutler Friends, my apologies. It...
View ArticleThe State of Women in Silicon Valley: Unwanted sexual advances
Unwanted sexual advances. Deemed “too aggressive” or “too quiet.” Overlooked at meetings. That’s the state of being a woman in tech, according to a new survey. Titled “Elephant in the Valley,” the...
View ArticleReddit hires Mark Luckie, formerly of Twitter and critic of tech’s lack of...
Reddit, the Internet company, has hired Mark Luckie, a vocal critic of tech’s lack of diversity. Luckie will be Reddit’s new head of journalism and media, NBC News reported. He previously worked at...
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