The Rise and Fall of Ellen Pao: Timeline of a Reddit Tantrum, Yesterday, Ellen Pao ventured down as CEO of Reddit. Fellow benefactor Steve Huffman will take her place. Pao's resignation came after a week of increased pressure at the company and on the site, yet her residency had been fraught with contention and backlash from the locales clients since it began.Ellen Pao joined funding firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in 2005. By 2012, she was a partner. In May of that year, she documented a sexual harassment lawsuit against the company. Pao's suit alleged that she was sexually harassed by her bosses and prevented an advancement because from claiming her sex.
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"The firm laments that the situation is being litigated openly and had trusted the two parties could have reached determination, particularly given Pao's seven-year history with the firm," Kleiner spokeswoman Christina Lee told Reuters at the time. "Taking after an exhaustive free investigation of the facts, the firm accepts the lawsuit is without legitimacy and expects to enthusiastically guard the matter."October 2012 – Kleiner Perkins fires Pao
A couple of months later, Pao was let go. A representative for the firm said that Pao's livelihood hadn't been terminated, yet that "Kleiner approached Ms. Pao to facilitate her transition, more than an expanded time of time, out of the firm." Pao emphatically maintains that she was let go as a consequence of the suit.
April 2013 – Reddit enlists Pao
Pao was initially enlisted by Reddit as head of business and partnerships. "She'll be taking a shot at helping us fabricate strategic partnerships that advantage the group," the blog entry announcing her employing reads. Pao composed at the time:
My favorite subreddits are/r/IAmA and/r/pareidolia (I like individuals notwithstanding when they're not real). Being part of a group of individuals who care is motivating and invigorating. reddit has such a great amount to offer so many individuals, and I'm eager to discover partners to help make reddit considerably more awesome.
November 2014 – Pao elevated to CEO
Pao was elevated to the position of interval CEO after her antecedent, Yishan Wong, surrendered after an irresolvable argument about office space.
(By way of explanation for Wong's sudden departure, Sam Altman, Reddit's "lead speculator" and president of Y Combinator, composed on his blog: "The reason was a disagreement with the board about another office (location and amount of cash to spend on a lease). To be clear, however, we didn't ask or recommend that he leave—he chose to when we didn't approve the new office plan." Okay.)
At the time, Reddit's largest stakeholders gave Pao their backing. "This is technically Ellen's business to lose," fellow benefactor Alexis Ohanian told the Wall Street Journal.A jury in San Francisco ruled in favor of Kleiner Perkins on each of the suit's four numbers.
The decision on whether she had been let go in retaliation for recording the suit obliged furthe deliberation, yet the jury ultimately came down on the funding association's side.
Pao had looked for $16 million in damages.
April 2015 – Pao eliminates salary negotiation at Reddit
"Men negotiate harder than ladies do and now and then ladies get penalized when they do negotiate," Pao told the Journal. "So as part of our enlisting procedure we don't negotiate with candidates. We concoct an offer that we believe is fair. On the off chance that you want more value, we'll give you a chance to swap a tiny bit of your cash salary for value, however we aren't going to reward individuals who are better negotiators with more compensation. We ask individuals what they think about differing qualities, and we did weed individuals out because of that."May 2015 – Reddit presents new harassment approach
After 10 years in presence, Reddit presented its first express anti-harassment approach, however it wasn't quite a bit of one, as it allowed subreddits like/r/CoonTown and/r/GasTheKikes to remain active.
June 2015 – Pao appeals decision; Reddit bans five subreddits
On June second, Pao's attorney documented a two-page notification of appeal with the San Francisco Superior Court. The intial documenting did exclude an explanation for the justification for appeal; such an explanation is not immediately needed.
On June tenth, "based on their harassment of individuals," Reddit banned five subreddits. "The main banned subreddit with more than 5,000 supporters is r/FatPeopleHate," administrators noted at the time. The others were/r/HamPlanetHatred,/r/Neofag,/r/ShitNiggersSay, and/r/Transfags.July 2015 – Reddit fires/r/IAmA coordinator Victoria Taylor
After Victoria Taylor, Reddit's executive of talent and liaison between the/r/IAmA group and superstars' advertising teams, was bafflingly let go, crap went totally sideways. Anyone who wasn't already having a fit did as such, and anyone who already was tossed a blood coagulation. Moderators started closing down gigantic swathes of the site, and clients retched racist, sexist bile all over themselves.
Pao issued the accompanying statement:
I want to apologize for how we handled the transition yesterday. We ought to have educated the moderators earlier and gave more detail on the transition plan. We are attempting to make changes and create the best experience for our clients and we aren't always great. Our group is what makes reddit, reddit and we let you down yesterday.
It's still not clear to what degree Pao was in charge of Taylor's stupid terminating, yet the abrupt removal of one the site's best-known and most popular moderators gave the group's sizable population of generally collected non-misanthropes reason to join the horde calling for her head.
Yesterday – Pao leaves
The babies—aided by the gigantic open objection over Taylor's terminating—got their way: Pao surrendered on Friday, replaced by Huffman, one of the site's fellow benefactors. Undoubtedly, Pao and her representatives mishandled the Taylor terminating, however the reaction was outsized, and without the mass of undeserved bile that had already been heaped on her, it appears to be improbable Pao would have been constrained out.
The New York Times reports that Pao will remain an advisor to Reddit's board through the end of the year while her appeal gets up and go. Else: "I plan to get a
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"The firm laments that the situation is being litigated openly and had trusted the two parties could have reached determination, particularly given Pao's seven-year history with the firm," Kleiner spokeswoman Christina Lee told Reuters at the time. "Taking after an exhaustive free investigation of the facts, the firm accepts the lawsuit is without legitimacy and expects to enthusiastically guard the matter."October 2012 – Kleiner Perkins fires Pao
A couple of months later, Pao was let go. A representative for the firm said that Pao's livelihood hadn't been terminated, yet that "Kleiner approached Ms. Pao to facilitate her transition, more than an expanded time of time, out of the firm." Pao emphatically maintains that she was let go as a consequence of the suit.
April 2013 – Reddit enlists Pao
Pao was initially enlisted by Reddit as head of business and partnerships. "She'll be taking a shot at helping us fabricate strategic partnerships that advantage the group," the blog entry announcing her employing reads. Pao composed at the time:
My favorite subreddits are/r/IAmA and/r/pareidolia (I like individuals notwithstanding when they're not real). Being part of a group of individuals who care is motivating and invigorating. reddit has such a great amount to offer so many individuals, and I'm eager to discover partners to help make reddit considerably more awesome.
November 2014 – Pao elevated to CEO
Pao was elevated to the position of interval CEO after her antecedent, Yishan Wong, surrendered after an irresolvable argument about office space.
(By way of explanation for Wong's sudden departure, Sam Altman, Reddit's "lead speculator" and president of Y Combinator, composed on his blog: "The reason was a disagreement with the board about another office (location and amount of cash to spend on a lease). To be clear, however, we didn't ask or recommend that he leave—he chose to when we didn't approve the new office plan." Okay.)
At the time, Reddit's largest stakeholders gave Pao their backing. "This is technically Ellen's business to lose," fellow benefactor Alexis Ohanian told the Wall Street Journal.A jury in San Francisco ruled in favor of Kleiner Perkins on each of the suit's four numbers.
The decision on whether she had been let go in retaliation for recording the suit obliged furthe deliberation, yet the jury ultimately came down on the funding association's side.
Pao had looked for $16 million in damages.
April 2015 – Pao eliminates salary negotiation at Reddit
"Men negotiate harder than ladies do and now and then ladies get penalized when they do negotiate," Pao told the Journal. "So as part of our enlisting procedure we don't negotiate with candidates. We concoct an offer that we believe is fair. On the off chance that you want more value, we'll give you a chance to swap a tiny bit of your cash salary for value, however we aren't going to reward individuals who are better negotiators with more compensation. We ask individuals what they think about differing qualities, and we did weed individuals out because of that."May 2015 – Reddit presents new harassment approach
After 10 years in presence, Reddit presented its first express anti-harassment approach, however it wasn't quite a bit of one, as it allowed subreddits like/r/CoonTown and/r/GasTheKikes to remain active.
June 2015 – Pao appeals decision; Reddit bans five subreddits
On June second, Pao's attorney documented a two-page notification of appeal with the San Francisco Superior Court. The intial documenting did exclude an explanation for the justification for appeal; such an explanation is not immediately needed.
On June tenth, "based on their harassment of individuals," Reddit banned five subreddits. "The main banned subreddit with more than 5,000 supporters is r/FatPeopleHate," administrators noted at the time. The others were/r/HamPlanetHatred,/r/Neofag,/r/ShitNiggersSay, and/r/Transfags.July 2015 – Reddit fires/r/IAmA coordinator Victoria Taylor
After Victoria Taylor, Reddit's executive of talent and liaison between the/r/IAmA group and superstars' advertising teams, was bafflingly let go, crap went totally sideways. Anyone who wasn't already having a fit did as such, and anyone who already was tossed a blood coagulation. Moderators started closing down gigantic swathes of the site, and clients retched racist, sexist bile all over themselves.
Pao issued the accompanying statement:
I want to apologize for how we handled the transition yesterday. We ought to have educated the moderators earlier and gave more detail on the transition plan. We are attempting to make changes and create the best experience for our clients and we aren't always great. Our group is what makes reddit, reddit and we let you down yesterday.
It's still not clear to what degree Pao was in charge of Taylor's stupid terminating, yet the abrupt removal of one the site's best-known and most popular moderators gave the group's sizable population of generally collected non-misanthropes reason to join the horde calling for her head.
Yesterday – Pao leaves
The babies—aided by the gigantic open objection over Taylor's terminating—got their way: Pao surrendered on Friday, replaced by Huffman, one of the site's fellow benefactors. Undoubtedly, Pao and her representatives mishandled the Taylor terminating, however the reaction was outsized, and without the mass of undeserved bile that had already been heaped on her, it appears to be improbable Pao would have been constrained out.
The New York Times reports that Pao will remain an advisor to Reddit's board through the end of the year while her appeal gets up and go. Else: "I plan to get a
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