Members of the jury had to sift through seven pages of verdict questions in a trial that pit a venerable venture capital firm, which nurtured such famous Internet start-ups as Google and Amazon, against a former junior partner who claimed that she was
Members of the jury had to sift through seven pages of verdict questions in a trial that pit a venerable venture capital firm, which nurtured such famous Internet start-ups as Google and Amazon, against a former junior partner who claimed that she was
NPR's Audie Cornish talks to Nitasha Tiku of The Verge about the latest in the Silicon Valley gender discrimination trial of Ellen Pao. Pao is suing a venture capital firm for $16 million in damages. AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: A jury of six men and six women
Yesterday Ellen Pao lost her sexual discrimination suit against her former employer, technology venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins. In the $16 million suit, Pao alleged that Kleiner Perkins had passed her over for promotionÂ
The jury was sent back to deliberate again on one of the four counts, but then came back against Pao.