Ellen Pao

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Ellen Pao
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Ellen Pao in 2015
Born1970 (age 53–54) [1]
New Jersey, U.S.
Alma mater Princeton University (BA)
Harvard University (JD, MBA)
Occupation(s) Attorney, executive
Spouses
  • Roger Kuo (divorced)
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    (m. 2007;sep. 2019)​
Children1 (with Fletcher)
Website ellenkpao.com
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On May 10, 2012, Pao filed a gender discrimination suit against Kleiner Perkins which went to trial in late February 2015. [63] [39] [64] It was covered by the national media and elicited broad comment regarding the issues raised. [65] The case was live blogged and tweeted constantly, to the point of providing both humorous and serious feedback to lawyers and witnesses. [66] The trial, lasting 24 days, resulted in a favorable verdict for Kleiner Perkins. [39]

While the trial was taking place, a gender discrimination suit was filed against Twitter by Tina Huang, alleging that the company unlawfully favored men in the promotion process [67] and a suit alleging sexual and racial discrimination was filed against Facebook by Chia Hong. [68] Law professor Joan Williams commented that it would have been "quite a coincidence" if these actions were not influenced by Pao's suit. [69] [70] More broadly, employment lawyers described an increase in the number of women coming forward with claims of gender inequality and the term Pao effect was coined to describe the resulting increase in lawsuits. [71] [72] [73] [74] Though many reporters commented positively on the changing culture, some expressed a foreboding that companies would be less likely to hire women during a period of abundant legal action. [75] Discussion of the trial's influence continued after its conclusion when a discrimination claim was made by Microsoft researcher Katie Moussouris. [76]

Following the trial, Kleiner Perkins sought $972,814 in legal costs but offered to withdraw the request if Pao declined to appeal the verdict. [77] On June 1, 2015, Pao filed an appeal, one week before the deadline. [78] On June 5, Kleiner Perkins claimed that Pao wanted $2.7 million to not appeal, an amount which they called "improper and excessive". [79] [80] A judge ruled on June 18 that Pao would only be responsible for $275,966 citing the economic resources of both parties under the Fair Employment and Housing Act. [81] Pao filed an objection, arguing that an award against her could result in a chilling effect on future discrimination cases. [82] On September 10, 2015, Pao wrote a guest post for Re/code in which she urged companies to be more open about bias accusations made by their employees. She also noted that there are behaviors that do not quite cross the line but can subtly change how a woman is perceived in the workplace. [83] In the Re/code post, she stated that she was deciding not to appeal but still paying $276,000 due to an additional stipulation by Kleiner Perkins that the fee could only be waived after signing a non-disparagement agreement. [84] However, one week later when Pao formally dropped her appeal, Kleiner Perkins filed to close the case without payment per its original announcement. [85]

Exit from Reddit

On June 10, 2015, a post on Reddit, signed by Pao and two other executives, announced that five subreddits were being banned for fostering off-site harassment. [86] One such community, r/FatPeopleHate, had over 150,000 subscribers. Multiple change.org petitions calling for Pao's resignation were created by displeased Reddit users and the most popular one reached 10,000 signatures in the days following the change. [87] Some users began posting hateful comments and images about Pao on Reddit and other websites. Other complaints about the site focused on inadequate moderation tools and the fact that some posts critical of Pao's lawsuit had been deleted by moderators. [88] [89]

So why am I leaving? Ultimately, the board asked me to demonstrate higher user growth in the next six months than I believe I can deliver while maintaining reddit's core principles.

—Ellen Pao's resignation post [90]

Opposition increased on July 2 when large sections of Reddit were set to private to protest the dismissal of Victoria Taylor, Reddit's director of talent, known for co-ordinating the Ask Me Anything interviews. [91] Expressing frustration over the decline in communication from Reddit management, AMA moderators stated that they had only learned about the firing indirectly after it happened. [92] [93] Despite one post to the contrary, Taylor's dismissal was widely attributed to Pao, with some commentators suggesting that the move diminished her credibility as an advocate for female employees. [94] She received increased harassment as a result and the petition for her removal surpassed 200,000 signatures. [53] [88] [95] On July 3, Pao issued apologies through Reddit and Time magazine. [96] However, the Reddit post was thought to have been deleted after it received enough downvotes to lose visibility. [97] In a longer post on July 6, she apologized for poor communication between staff members and for not delivering on promises. [98] Pao resigned on July 10 and was replaced by Reddit co-founder Steve Huffman. [55]

Pao speaks onstage during TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco 2019 at Moscone Convention Center on October 4, 2019. Ellen Pao TechCrunch 2019.jpeg
Pao speaks onstage during TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco 2019 at Moscone Convention Center on October 4, 2019.

On July 12, former Reddit CEO Yishan Wong, who had previously defended the five bans on Quora, began a series of posts which he referred to as "declassifying a lot of things". [99] The first drew attention to the fact that Victoria Taylor was in fact fired by Alexis Ohanian and not Pao. [95] When shown that the media was covering this post, Pao tweeted "thanks for not blaming me for it". [100] In a later post, which recalled two instances of Pao arguing against purging hateful subreddits, Wong sharply criticized the movement against her and warned about stricter policies under the site's cofounders. [101] Huffman followed this by enacting a policy to reduce the prominence of some xenophobic communities and ban some others. [102] On July 13, Reddit's chief engineer Bethanye Blount left the company for unrelated reasons and opined that Pao did not receive enough support from the board. Specifically, she referenced the glass cliff phenomenon in which women are allegedly given disproportionately unstable leadership positions. [103] On July 16, Pao wrote about the difficulty of combating harassment while preserving "edgy content". The editorial described what she called "one of the largest trolling attacks in history" and the subsequent outpouring of support. [104]

Controversy involving Reddit's CEO Steve Huffman

In June 2020, Pao released a tweet through her official Twitter profile, stating the need to "call out" Reddit's leadership. [105]

The tweet contained arguments against current Reddit CEO Steve Huffman (registered on Reddit as /u/spez). Pao deemed him as responsible for the rampant racism and hatred on the platform, accusing Reddit of "monetizing white supremacy".

Huffman had previously released an open letter on the website in response to the George Floyd protests, in which he affirmed that the platform "[does] not tolerate hate, racism, and violence." [106] Pao, however, found his remarks hypocritical and criticized Huffman. [107]

Several popular subreddits, such as r/NBA and r/NFL, agreed with Pao, shutting down their pages for 24 hours, in a polemic against Huffman, calling out his letter as "hypocritical" and asking Reddit's leadership to take more concrete actions against racism on the platform.

Views

In 2021, amid the fraud trial of former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes, Pao wrote in the New York Times that it can both be true that Holmes "should be held accountable for her actions" and that male CEOs not being similarly held to account for misjudgement and wrongdoing is a symptom of sexism. As examples, she cited Facebook's role in facilitating the Rohingya genocide and propagating "anti-vaccination propaganda" under Mark Zuckerberg, Juul's misleading promotion of nicotine products, including to children, under Kevin Burns, and numerous scandals at Uber under Travis Kalanick. [108]

Personal life

Pao married Roger Kuo, they later divorced. [13] She then married Buddy Fletcher in December 2007 in San Francisco. [14] They met through Aspen Institute functions during the summer of 2007, after they were both appointed Crown Fellows. [13] Pao and Fletcher have a daughter, born July 2008. [14] Pao is a vegetarian. [109]

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