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    Murry ChangAshley Feinberg
    9/10/15 2:15pm

    OR because she didn’t really have a good case to begin with. If she did, she’d have won. Everything I saw about it seemed to indicate that she didn’t get along with her coworkers and wasn’t a very good employee in general.

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      KarenDelaneyWalkerMurry Chang
      9/10/15 2:18pm

      I don’t much about this particular case so I’m not going to comment on the merits of it, but the idea that because she lost she must have been in the wrong is laughable. The courts screw up all the time and just because one person prevails over another doesn’t mean they were actually in the right. It just means they were better at presenting their case in a convincing manner.

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      StopArmchairLawyeringMurry Chang
      9/10/15 2:58pm

      Exactly. Is gender discrimination and sexism—particularly covert sexism, gender stereotyping, etc.—a problem in Silicon Valley? Hell yes. Unquestionably.

      In this particular case, was Pao discriminated against on the basis of her gender? From what I’ve read, no.

      It's a shame, actually. We usually say "bad facts make bad law" and it applies in this case to the extreme—Pao's failure at trial and on appeal will be held up as the proof that gender discrimination doesn't exist in the Valley. Bad plaintiff set a bad precedent.

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    etfpAshley Feinberg
    9/10/15 2:20pm

    Christ. Please use your replies, stars and recommends wisely. It’s like these Hamfisted douchebags have Google Alerts for “Gawker” and “Ellen Pao” already loaded up so they can make some horribly sexist and/or racist comment about whatever news story that wanders within their eyesight.

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      ╰(　´◔　ω　◔ `)╯< Woke and Bokeetfp
      9/10/15 2:24pm

      The shitbird redditors and channers have decided to set up camp here for good. In fact, they may have been here all along.

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      Mattetfp
      9/10/15 2:51pm

      So what you're saying is that distinctly septic tank smell I'm getting is the grays on this thread?

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    amtAshley Feinberg
    9/10/15 2:25pm

    Kleiner Perkins, however, argued that Pao—who boasts an engineering degree from Princeton as well as an MBA and J.D. from Harvard—simply didn’t have the leadership skills or “genetic makeup” to be a venture capitalist, and that was better suited as support staff.

    Jeez, I knew that skills inflation was growing with more and more jobs requiring bachelor degrees when in the past they didn’t, but have we actually reached the point where you need at least a Masters in order to brew a cup of coffee or make a photocopy in Corporate America?

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      ReburnsABurningReturnsamt
      9/10/15 2:28pm

      The implication there wasn’t that she should be brewing a cup of coffee. It was that she should have been leading a team of analysts assisting senior partners in their projects instead of getting an equity stake in the company as a partner or something similar to that.

      Which, hey, might be possible. Being a senior partner is a lot more about having your own book of contacts to source deals from than it is anything else.

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      etfpamt
      9/10/15 2:31pm

      but have we actually reached the point where you need at least a Masters in order to brew a cup of coffee

      Just wanted to take this time to say “Fuck K-Cups”

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    Hip Brooklyn StereotypeAshley Feinberg
    9/10/15 2:15pm

    ...didn’t have the leadership skills or “genetic makeup” to be a venture capitalist...

    You’ve got to be kidding me with this.

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      BurnBabyBurnHip Brooklyn Stereotype
      9/10/15 2:18pm

      Yeah, those better be air quotes or you better add a footnote to who that quote is from.

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      Fleur-de-litHip Brooklyn Stereotype
      9/10/15 2:22pm

      It’s very simple, see? He meant ‘fundamental non-hereditary attributes,’ but said ‘genetic makeup’ instead. Happens all the time.

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    NorthEastWASPstateEmployeeAshley Feinberg
    9/10/15 2:16pm

    Her extortion scam has finally ended, remember the exact amount of her lawsuit is the amount her husband and her owe in damages for the Ponzi scheme they ran

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      Fleur-de-litAshley Feinberg
      9/10/15 2:17pm

      Pao, right in the kisser!

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        TheScrobocopAshley Feinberg
        9/10/15 4:17pm

        re/code’s interview with one of the jurors from Ellen Pao’s civil suits, for the curious. Seems like a combination of ineffective counsel and Pao’s personal abrasiveness and entitled nature sank her claims.

        http://recode.net/2015/03/30/a-j…

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          onehappymanAshley Feinberg
          9/10/15 5:13pm

          “simply didn’t have the leadership skills or “genetic makeup” to be a venture capitalist....”

          I’ve worked in this town for decades longer than I care to admit. The genetic makeup of most VC’s is a unique combination of soulless vampire bent on sucking the life out of people, mixed with moral standards of someone who steals from the elderly.

          And if Jack from _ _V is reading this, I’m describing you...you Tesla driving sack of shit.

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            BackToFrontTheTaintYearsAshley Feinberg
            9/10/15 2:26pm

            Quitter.

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