article_snippet: Ellen Pao, 45, accused venture capital firm Kleiner, Perkins, Caulfield & Byers of discriminating against her other female colleagues in a $16m suit .
article_snippet: In Ellen Pao first day of testimony, the plaintiff testified that one male colleague was 'relentless' in one male colleague pursuit of Ellen Pao and cut Ellen Pao out of email chains and meetings when Ellen Pao ended the affair.
article_snippet: Ellen Pao is seeking damages from Ellen Pao former employer after claiming Ellen Pao was passed over for a promotion because Ellen Pao is a woman and then fired in 2012 after Ellen Pao complained.
article_snippet: Kleiner Perkins has denied wrongdoing and says Ellen Pao did not get along with Ellen Pao colleagues and performed poorly after Ellen Pao became a junior partner around 2010.
article_snippet: Ellen Pao acknowledged having the affair with a male colleague, but said Ellen Pao broke the affair with a male colleague off when Ellen Pao learned Ellen Pao had lied that his wife had left Ellen Pao.
article_snippet: Ellen Pao said a male colleague later retaliated by shutting Ellen Pao out of emails and meetings. 'a male colleague was relentless and eventually told me that his wife had left him,' Ellen Pao told jurors, explaining why Ellen Pao got into the relationship with a male colleague.
article_snippet: When Ellen Pao raised the retaliation issue with management, a senior partner explained how a senior partner had met a senior partner at another company while a senior partner was married, and perhaps Ellen Pao could have the same outcome with Ellen Pao colleague, Ellen Pao testified.
article_snippet: Ellen Pao said Ellen Pao repeatedly complained that a male colleague was retaliating against Ellen Pao, but 'Kleiner Perkins continued to do nothing.'
article_snippet: John Doerr (left) previously took the stand during the trial and discussed whether John Doerr (left) discriminated against Ellen Pao, John Doerr (left) former chief of staff .
article_snippet: a conversation men were not Kleiner employees, but had been invited by a senior Kleiner manager, who Ellen Pao's attorneys say was present but did nothing to stop the conversation.
article_snippet: Kleiner Perkins attorneys have tried to portray Ellen Pao as a chronic complainer who demanded credit for work done by a team, clashed with Ellen Pao colleagues, and twisted facts and circumstances.
article_snippet: Kleiner Perkins' attorneys tried Monday to dispute that portrayal and establish Kleiner Perkins' attorneys client's credibility and likeability with the jury.
article_snippet: During Ellen Pao testimony, Ellen Pao said Ellen Pao had a disagreement with a female colleague, but Kleiner Perkins' attorneys improved Kleiner Perkins' attorneys communication after spending more time together outside the office, as Kleiner Perkins management had suggested.
article_snippet: Steve Hirschfeld, an investigator hired by the firm to look into Ellen Pao's bias complaint, testified Monday that Ellen Pao told him that Ellen Pao relationship with the male colleague was not consensual - a contention Hirschfeld did not find truthful.
highlights_snippet: Pao, 45, took the stand on Monday and testified against former employers .
  
highlights_snippet: Told jurors in the trial how one male colleague pursued Ellen Pao 'relentlessly'
  
highlights_snippet: But Ellen Pao was frozen out after breaking off the affair, the plaintiff testified .
  