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Ellen Pao Officially Found Liable For Roughly $276,000 In Court Fees From Kleiner Perkins

Ellen Pao not only lost on all counts of a high-profile sexual discrimination case earlier this year, but Judge Harold Kahn has officially ordered the interim Reddit CEO to pay more than a quarter of

Ellen Pao Files Notice Of Appeal For KPCB Discrimination Case

Reddit CEO and former venture capitalist Ellen Pao has filed a notice of appeal in her long-running gender discrimination case against venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, accord

Ellen Pao Says Silicon Valley Isn’t A Meritocracy. It’s Not.

Reddit CEO Ellen Pao took the stage today at the Code Conference in Southern California. Though she is currently the CEO of popular news aggregator Reddit, which has 170 million monthly active users,

Two Jurors On Opposite Sides Share Their Pao Vs. Kleiner Perspectives

It’s been a very suspenseful day for all of those involved in the Pao vs. KPCB trial (well, maybe not “Sleeping Guy”). We had a verdict, and then suddenly we didn’t, because a juro

Ellen Pao’s Statement On Losing The Kleiner Perkins Case: “The Battle Was Worth It”

Directly after the jury announced its final verdict in Ellen Pao Vs. Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, in which it ruled against all four of Pao’s claims of gender discrimination and retalia

In Final Verdict, Jury Rules Against Pao On All Four Claims In Ellen Pao Vs. Kleiner Perkins

Updated: After several days of deliberations, a San Francisco Superior Court jury has come to a conclusion in Ellen Pao Vs. Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, the gender discrimination trial that b

Thou Shalt Not Google

At every break during the high-profile Pao versus Kleiner Perkins trial these past couple of weeks, judge Harold Khan reminded the jurors, "Do not form or express any opinions about the case. Do not d

As Jury Deliberates Pao V. Kleiner Perkins, Allegiances Aren’t Always Based On Gender

“The jury is six men and six women, so this probably won’t be quick,” a man in a suit said to a female colleague as they shuffled out of the court. They were among the dozens of others who have

Pao Vs. Kleiner Defense Rests Its Case, Showcasing A Different Side Of The Story

Yesterday afternoon, the legal team representing venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers rested its case in the Ellen Pao Vs. Kleiner Perkins trial, bringing the fourth full week in

Death By A Thousand Seating Charts

When Kleiner Perkins’ head legal counsel Lynne Hermle pulled up a seating chart from the firm’s December 2011 offsite on the court’s projector during her cross examination of Ellen Pao yeste

Judge Denies Kleiner Perkins’ Bid To Discuss Ellen Pao’s Financial Motives In Court

Harold Kahn, the San Francisco Superior Court judge who is overseeing the ongoing Ellen Pao Vs. Kleiner Perkins trial, has ruled that Kleiner Perkins' legal team will not be able to discuss the person

Ellen Pao “Owns The Room”

Kleiner Perkins' legendary venture investor John Doerr testified last week that Ellen Pao needed to "own the room" if she wanted to move up in the world of venture capital. Today, she did just that

Kleiner Trial Is A Front Row Seat To A VC Firm In Flux

"Didn’t you tell Ms. Pao at the time that one of the reasons you chose Randy Komisar to be a board partner was that Randy ‘needed a win’?" asked Alan Exelrod, the lead counsel for the plaintiff

As Kleiner Trial Plays On, VC’s Upper Echelon Is Laid Bare To The Real World

The world of venture capital has long been cloaked in understated reticence and secrecy. That’s especially been true for the traditional top tier Sand Hill Road firms, such as Kleiner Perkins Ca

It’s Well Past Time VCs Hired HR Directors

Those following the Pao/KPCB saga in court yesterday were treated to the testimony of Trae Vassallo, a former Kleiner partner, who claimed on the witness stand that she too was uncomfortably propositi

As Ellen Pao Vs. Kleiner Trial Gets Underway, A Number Of Power Players To Take Stand

It was nearly three years ago that TechCrunch broke the story that Ellen Pao, then a partner at vaunted Silicon Valley venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers, was suing the firm fo

Kleiner Perkins Sued By Partner Ellen Pao, Alleging Sexual Harassment, Gender Discrimination

<a target="_blank" href="http://www.kpcb.com/">Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers</a>, one of the most storied and well-respected venture capital firms in Silicon Valley, has been sued by <a target="_