
Ellen Pao’s long-strange-trip included filing a historic gender discrimination lawsuit against former employer Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, losing at trial, getting fired as CEO of Reddit, and now dropping her appeal and paying KPCB $276,000 in legal fees.
by Chriss W. Street12 Sep 2015, 1:01 PM PST0

How can Twitter improve its sluggish growth? The company’s stock plummeted after interim chief executive Jack Dorsey said he was “not satisfied” with current user growth figures following the release of Twitter’s Q2 earnings report on Tuesday.
by Allum Bokhari30 Jul 2015, 8:39 PM PST0

Reddit co-founder Steve Huffman has outlined a new content policy that many users fear marks a new era of censorship on the platform.
by Allum Bokhari16 Jul 2015, 4:27 PM PST0

When Breitbart News published “Ellen Pao Out As Reddit CEO, Blames Site’s Users” recently, we received kudos from Reddit users for understanding it was Poa’s actions aimed at limiting users’ free speech in order to make the site more advertiser friendly that caused a user rebellion. But the business press continues to blame users, in articles such as the San Francisco Chronicle’s “Ellen Pao’s Ouster Shows Reddit CEO can’t Function under Mob Rule.”
by Chriss W. Street16 Jul 2015, 5:16 AM PST0

Ellen Pao has resigned as CEO of Reddit following the worst set of user and moderator revolts in the site’s history, but Redditors who hoped her departure marked the end of threats to free speech on the site are likely to be disappointed.
by Allum Bokhari15 Jul 2015, 6:24 AM PST0

Silicon Valley Business Journal just reported that “Ellen Pao is resigning from Reddit after eight months of drama as interim CEO.” Having kept her Reddit position despite losing America’s highest profile sexual discrimination lawsuits against what she called Silicon Valley’s “boy’s club,”
by Chriss W. Street10 Jul 2015, 9:33 PM PST0

At the height of the Reddit revolt over the weekend, Voat added a note to their landing page confirming that they had been approached by venture capitalists.
by Allum Bokhari8 Jul 2015, 12:29 PM PST0

Since we reported on the latest Reddit Revolt yesterday, the situation on the web culture giant has only escalated. Over 1400 user-created communities (“subreddits”) have been shut down, representing a combined subscriber base of over 124,000,000.
by Allum Bokhari3 Jul 2015, 2:08 PM PST0

This followed the sacking of Victoria Taylor, a popular site admin, after a Reddit Q&A with the Rev. Jesse Jackson went badly for the activist preacher.
by Allum Bokhari2 Jul 2015, 8:47 PM PST0

“PAO GET OUT NOW” shouts a post on the first page of the front page of Reddit. It links to a picture of Adolf Hitler with the face of CEO Ellen Pao superimposed upon it. This is now a common sight on Reddit, the influential “Front Page of the Internet”, a website whose users are in full-scale revolt against their administrators.
by Allum Bokhari12 Jun 2015, 1:09 PM PST0

When failed discrimination plaintiff Ellen Pao was appointed CEO of Reddit last January, many predicted that it would herald a new age of censorship on the link-sharing and discussion site. Those predictions appear to have come true, as a number of communities on the site (known as “subreddits”) have just been unilaterally shut down.
by Allum Bokhari10 Jun 2015, 2:07 PM PST0

It has been just two months since a San Francisco jury of six women and six men ruled against former junior partner Ellen Pao on all four of Pao’s claims of gender discrimination and retaliation against the prestigious Silicon Valley venture capital firm of
by Chriss W. Street2 Jun 2015, 2:30 PM PST0

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A woman at the center of a high-profile gender bias lawsuit against an elite Silicon Valley venture capital firm filed an appeal on Monday of a jury verdict against her.
by Breitbart News1 Jun 2015, 8:57 PM PST0

The five-week-long and very salacious trail against Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers for alleged sexual discrimination against Ellen Pao went to the jury Wednesday. The former junior partner is demanding $16 million for sexual discrimination and up to $144 million for punitive damages. Her suit has paved the way for a coming tsunami of diversity litigation across Silicon Valley.
by Chriss W. Street26 Mar 2015, 5:22 AM PST0

Testimony finished on Friday in Ellen Pao’s sex discrimination trial against Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPBC) and closing arguments are scheduled for Tuesday. Soon the trial will be in the hands of the six women and six men of the jury
by Chriss W. Street23 Mar 2015, 2:00 PM PST0

Ellen Pao, who is suing for $16 million in damages for sexual harassment, was cross-examined over the past two days by attorneys for her former employer, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPBC). The defense depicted Pao as belligerent, full of
by Chriss W. Street12 Mar 2015, 10:56 AM PST0

As the globe’s top venture capitalist, John Doerr of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers has funded and mentored tons of start-up Silicon Valley companies that became fantastically successful, including Google, Amazon, Intuit, and Electronic Arts, Twitter, Square and Zynga. But one of his worst bets may turn out to be personally hiring Ellen Pao in 2005. Pao is dragging Doerr into her lawsuit for $16 million for sexual discrimination after 7 years at the firm.
by Chriss W. Street4 Mar 2015, 12:51 PM PST0

Online microblogging site Reddit’s new interim CEO Ellen Pao, is seeking a massive $16 million in reparations stemming from a 2012 gender discrimination lawsuit against her former employee, venture capital firm Kleiner, Perkins, Caulfied & Byers.
by Adelle Nazarian3 Feb 2015, 9:06 PM PST0