Kleiner Perkins’ John Doerr Takes the Stand in Pao Case: Liveblog

“Did you tell Mr. Hirschfeld that ‘women were at a disadvantage because of the sheer number of men in venture capital’?  Yeah, we/women are so out number, that's why I devoted the rest of my life to put more women in Tech.  They also want me to know this is a man's world, which the male engineers often saying to each other, regardless how outstanding my accomplishments were in Emulation, and now in the Patent and Trademark Office.

"Ellen Pao was hit by a taxi cab" remind me of the failed attempt beheading (see pic) on me.

" thought of as a surrogate daughter" to John Doerr, also being a woman who excelled in the job over males; which makes Ellen Pao a target for anyone who wants to get ahead.  Additionally, when a woman refused to have an affair,  in addition to slandering by coworkers such as Chien,  Ajit Nazre, etc to incite resentments toward Pao......sets up an environment to oust Pao (same happened to me by people from Asia as soon as I arrived in the Silicon Valley in the 1990s).  All Partners did, except Doerr, that led to Pao termination (This happened to me over and over again despite I was the only person could run emulation on time and within budget, and maybe the first person at succeeding).  Doerr keep Pao from joining  Google VC as he thought Pao is a talent he didn't want to lose, and planning on put Pao in a fund, now Peo is fired, out of discrimination by the firm.

The Firm's disappointing return that led to "refresh", while promoted non-productive members to partner, as long they are males, and raising stars like Ellen Pao is setup to be terminated, is a major contributing factor.  If is true meritocracy based, and not confined to conventional thinking, the Firm will do well.  So far, just a  bunch of out of date old white male from the "Mad Men" era.

Wonder why the firm having such low return?  According to Doerr, IPO is not the measure of success in VC, so they fired Pao.    The root cause - males who duressing women to have an affair and sexually harassing them, disrupting the concertration of the whole firm, are still working to sexually harassed another young woman, and further disrupting the whole firm.

John Doerr did not act like a States man in court, very disappointing.  I had so much respect for him.  Well, just another old white male.

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