“Is this the trial of the century?” asked Marketplace's Kai Ryssdal each time I went on his radio show to discuss Ellen Pao's gender discrimination and retaliation lawsuit against her former employer Kleiner Perkins. I wasn't sure how to answer that Get all the latest updates from Mercury News staff writers as the verdict in … Read more
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 began with a lawsuit filed in Ellen Pao reacts to losing her three-year battle with one of Silicon Valley's most prestigious venture capital firms … Read more
Now, in Ellen Pao, the Valley has found its newest disrupter. And the conventional order she has shaken up concerns the Valley itself and the clubby way of doing things in a place that fancies itself the emerging center of the world. Often, Silicon A jury in San Francisco today found the Silicon Valley venture … Read more
A jury in San Francisco today found the Silicon Valley venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers not liable in all claims of sex discrimination against former employee Ellen Pao. The final verdict came after a Ellen Pao is suing for both punitive and compensatory damages in her gender discrimination trial against the venture … Read more