Ellen Pao
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RESET: MY FIGHT FOR INCLUSION & LASTING CHANGE
In 2015, Ellen K. Pao sued a powerhouse Silicon Valley venture capital firm for workplace discrimination. Her suit rocked the tech world—and exposed its toxic culture and homogeneity. Although Pao lost her suit, she revolutionized the conversation at tech offices, in the media, and around the world.
In this speech, Pao tells her full story, from growing up the daughter of immigrants and earning multiple Ivy League degrees to working at top startups and rising in the ranks — only to be excluded from decisive meetings, uninvited from networking events, and undercut by male executives.
As Pao spotlights the troubling issues plaguing today’s workplaces, she shares her own efforts to find solutions, such as her progressive actions at reddit to change the status quo for the company, banning revenge porn and unauthorized nude photos and shutting down harassing subreddits.
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A Year After the Ellen Pao Verdict, Tech Still Gets Diversity Wrong
JUST OVER A year ago, I was peering through a window into a San Francisco courtroom, waiting to be allowed inside. I’d been covering the Ellen Pao sex bias trial for five weeks, filing from the courtroom daily. Now the trial was over, and the world was awaiting the verdict. My thoughts on what I felt the outcome should be remained muddled, but time didn’t wait for me. By mid-afternoon, the verdict was out.
Ellen Pao Disrupts How Silicon Valley Does Business - The New ...
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 ...
Ellen Pao Ends Legal Battle, Citing Personal Resources - The New ...
Ellen Pao, a tech industry executive who brought an unsuccessful discrimination lawsuit against her former employer, the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins ...
Ellen Pao Steps Down as CEO After Reddit Revolt | WIRED
Reddit interim CEO Ellen Pao resigned today after facing an all-out revolt on the site in the wake of the firing of a popular employee.
Exclusive: Ellen Pao opens up after losing high-profile gender ...
As details of Ellen Pao's gender-discrimination case against the prominent venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers came to light, the industry and the ...
Books by Ellen Pao
“Reset: My Fight for Inclusion and Lasting Change” (2017)
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