Ex-Kleiner Perkins partner, Ellen Pao, who grasped headlines last year in May for suing her employer over sexual harassment, has now got a job at Reddit. Pao officially agreed to join the company from last week, as the venture capitalist will be assisting Reddit in building strategic partnerships. According to a source, Pao is not new to Reddit, as she has already been working with the company on a part-time basis. In addition to this she also shares a close relation with CEO Yishan Wong. Interestingly, as compares to Kleiner Perkins, Pao’s ex-firm, Reddit does not seems to have any issues with women, perhaps that’s why the company of 25 staff members include 9 women. Plus two significant posts of senior manager of business operations and community manager in the corporation belong to women (Jena Donlin and Alex Angel).
The general manager of Reddit, Erik Martin said that hiring Ms. Pao has nothing to do with the legal matters she is involved in, as according to him, “Ellen is extremely qualified.”
Reddit has also updated their blog with a new post on the hiring of Ms. Pao on Thursday, April 11, which reads:
“A long-time lurker, Ellen comes to us by way of a long, adventurous career spanning venture capital, business development, law, and electrical engineering. She’s been a formal and informal advisor to Reddit for more than a year, and recently decided to finally join us full-time. She’ll be working on helping us build strategic partnerships that benefit the community.
Here’s Ellen in her own words: “I grew up in Maplewood, New Jersey, raised by enginerds on Star Wars, computers and books. I live in San Francisco, via New York City, Boston and Hong Kong. I’ve worked with dozens of tech companies, traveling to eleven countries on five continents, to help build a variety of consumer and business platform companies. “My favorite subreddits are /r/IAmA and /r/pareidolia (I like people even when they’re not real). Being part of a community of people who care is inspiring and energizing. reddit has so much to offer so many people, and I’m excited to find partners to help make reddit even more awesome.”
The past few months (and Monday) have been a time of unprecedented growth for reddit, and we’d like to thank everyone who’s reading this for your support, whether that happens to be by contributing interesting new posts, buying ads or reddit gold, sharing reddit with your friends, or moderating one of the thousands and thousands of unique subreddits.
Verily, through all our efforts, reddit shall continue on its course to its destiny uninterrupted.”
Source: BetaBeat, VentureBeat
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