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Ellen Pao resigned as CEO Reddit
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Yesterday it was известно that Ellen Pao resigned as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) the famous social aggregator Reddit, by mutual agreement with the Board of Directors. Instead, it will deal with the leadership of one of the co-founders of Reddit - Web developer and founder of several other services Stephen Huffman. In a related post about leaving Ellen Pao speak about it in a grateful manner, saying that she by their actions & quot; ... contributed to the growth of the company & quot ;.
45-year-old Ellen Pao приобрела a kind of fame for trial on sexual discrimination against women, which she started in 2012 in San Francisco. The essence of the claim to the Pao investment fund Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers was the fact that she, being in the position of a junior partner of the investment, and has not received an offer to become "a senior investment partner." However, it is the owner of two diplomas of prestigious universities: Princeton electrical engineering at Harvard and on jurisprudence. According to the most Ellen happened because of her sex discrimination as women. The amount of the claim to the investment fund of $ 16 million.
In April this year the claim was denied by Ellen Pao. She had to undergo cross-examination lawyers Fund, in which it investigated the SMS-correspondence and e-mail correspondence. During these meetings, which have gained popularity in the courtroom there were a lot of people, some of whom were forced to stand along the walls: to be known even a case where one of the visitors with its back turned out the lights in the hall, pressing the switch. During the proceedings, Ellen Pao had to listen to myself a lot of unpleasant things, voiced witness Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. They said they believe in dialogue Pao heavy man, and she did not get promoted only because of its performance.
In her new job to Reddit Ellen Pao also started problems . As a result of her actions - mainly Ellen was accused of censorship and closure of the popular subredditov - Community organized a petition for her resignation from the post of CEO, And the number of votes "for" exceeds 200 000. Earlier started strike moderators many popular community Reddit, when their normal visitors can not enter the relevant reddity to find that they were closed to the public and access to them have only moderators. The initiative was named "2015 Reddit Blackout» and began after his discharge from the Reddit Victoria Taylor, who was responsible for the special session of the «Ask me anything». In the course of these popular people in their fields to answer questions users. In addition, Ellen Pao canceled all existing individual arrangements within the company for wages, justifying the need to respect this sexual equality.
Source: geektimes.ru/post/253302/
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