Senior Editor Liz Gannes, who along with Nellie Bowles has been covering Pao's civil suit against venerable venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, talked with Marketplace about how the case opened up a conversation about the gender
Ellen Pao lost her gender discrimination lawsuit against former employer Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Friday. The closely watched trial has captivated Silicon Valley and served as a referendum on the challenges women
trial that shook the tech world. A California jury also rejected a claim that Kleiner, the firm that backed Google Inc and Amazon.com Inc , had retaliated against its former partner, Ellen Pao, by firing her after she sued in 2012.
Ellen Pao, the former Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers junior partner who sued the high-powered Silicon Valley venture capital firm for gender discrimination after she was allegedly sexually harassed, targeted for revenge by
Anyone who has followed the Ellen Pao trial knows the data: The decline of women investors in venture from 10 percent to 6 percent; the 77 percent of venture firms that have never had a woman partner; the 11 percent of tech board seats held by women,