The whole trial was hilarious. Most of her points were beyond absurd; like for example she called it sexual misconduct when a partner rubbed her back to calm her down aftershe was hit by a car. In addition, she got all negative performance reviews, and was struggling in the company--however, the year where they were supposedly "retaliating" against her for filing her complaint? She got a150k bonus and a 40k increase in salary(She was making half a million a year, so it was about an 8% bump). She claims she was passed over for "senior partner", while three male colleagues were not, and that was because of her gender. But in reality, it was shown those three men had previous experience before coming to the firm, and had worked in the field much longer, and at the company longer. (Pao, by contrast, came to the company with 0 experience in VC and wanted to be a partner within 5 years.)
That and there were some seriously fucked up abnormalities in her claim. First, the relationship she admits was strictly consensual; it only went south because the guy refused to leave his wife. After though, during the time he was "retaliating", they showed friendly emails and texts and again, she was given a 150k bonus. When she brought her complaint up? KP hired her an investigator, took the partner she had the affair with bonus away (Punishing him), and offered to increase the punitive measures depending on what the investigator found. However, she immediately withdrew her complaint, and then threatened to file suit unless they paid her 10 million dollars. They refused but were willing to let her continue working as the suit was in progress. She then began causing disruptions in the company until they finally fired her (But offered her a years salary and other large benefits.)
When testimony began coming out, nearly all of her co-workers called her a sociopathic bitch, just an extreme narcissist who couldn't accept she was screwing up. She were degrade and berate her fellow female employees and accuse the men of "talking down to her" (When they were trying to correct mistakes she was making--again, she had ZERO experience. Shew as hired mainly because of her impressive academic record.)...And these comments were nearly universal. In the end, she had spent 2-3 years collecting EVERY document she could, saving every text and email, ect, before she made her complaint--but none of them show any misconduct. It was pretty obvious, by how she withdrew her complaint when her company bent over backwards to remedy it? That her intention was a shake down because she was screwing up at the firm. The trial lawyer for KP illustrated that in such an entertaining way that it was almost humorous to watch (Pao really did come off as a narcissistic, petulant asshole; which granted isn't too abnormal in VC, but she was exceptional even among her peers in this regard.)
Anyway, she gets "hired" at Reddit with the rumors Spronk mentioned--she is backed by different VC firm, who invested in Reddit. In essence, they probably gave her the CEO because she has a law degree and MBA and they want to do what Digg did and separate Reddit from the "problematic users" (Change the front page to published news stories, rather than user submitted content, eventually) so they can sell it...AND because they want to support her while she was filing suit against their rival. (Which, event though she lost...badly..it is still bad PR for them. It's why she's appealing even though KP said they'd waive her paying their legal fees if she'd just stop.)
