article_snippet: Reddit interim CEO Ellen Pao, 45, sued her former employer Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers for four counts of discrimination after her was fired.
article_snippet: Lost: Ellen Pao (pictured after the verdict) sued Ellen Pao (pictured after the verdict) former employers for four counts of gender bias after Ellen Pao (pictured after the verdict) .
article_snippet: The Reddit CEO claimed Ellen Pao (pictured after the verdict) career crumbled at Kleiner after ending an affair with a partner .
article_snippet: Over the course of three years, Ellen Pao told San Francisco Superior Court Ellen Pao (pictured after the verdict) career at Kleiner Perkins crumbled after Ellen Pao (pictured after the verdict) ended a brief affair with partner Ajit Nazre, and was fired in 2012 when Ellen Pao (pictured after the verdict) complained.
article_snippet: Pao, who is married to Wall Street financier Alphonse Fletcher Jr, said he 'falsely told Ellen Pao (pictured after the verdict) that he wife had left he' and 'engaged in offensive, obstructionist, and difficult behavior' until Ellen Pao (pictured after the verdict) 'succumbed' two or three times.
article_snippet: After Ellen Pao (pictured after the verdict) ended the liaison, he started to 'retaliate', Ellen Pao (pictured after the verdict) claimed.
article_snippet: At one point, Ellen Pao (pictured after the verdict) said, partner Ajit Nazre appeared at Ellen Pao (pictured after the verdict) colleague's hotel room on a business trip wearing nothing but a bathrobe, carrying a glass of wine, according to testimony.
article_snippet: Pao's first claim, tabled in 2007, also accused senior partner Randy Komisar of giving Ellen Pao (pictured after the verdict) a Leonard Cohen book, Book Of Longing, filled with sexually explicit drawings and poems.
article_snippet: Later, Vassallo asked Ellen Pao (pictured after the verdict) to dinner adding that 'Vassallo wife would be out of town'.
article_snippet: One of Pao's mentors testified that subpar performance meant Ellen Pao (pictured after the verdict) was not promoted, rather than gender .
article_snippet: John Doerr, once Pao's direct boss, told investigators Ellen Pao (pictured after the verdict) had 'a female chip on Ellen Pao (pictured after the verdict) shoulder'.
article_snippet: Specifically, Pao alleged that: .
article_snippet: But initially, the verdict stated that four jurors supported Pao's view that Pao was fired because Pao sued for gender discrimination.
article_snippet: On the pivotal claim that Pao was fired for being female, ten jurors ruled gender was not a substantial factor.
article_snippet: Some witnesses, including Pao's onetime mentor John Doerr, testified that Pao's lack of advancement stemmed from subpar performance, not discrimination or retaliation.
article_snippet: Pao testified for five days and faced questions from jurors such as whether it was 'professional to enter into an affair with a married partner?' 'Going back
highlights_snippet: Ellen Pao sued Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield and Byers for four counts of gender discrimination .
  
highlights_snippet: Ellen Pao was seeking $16 million plus damages from Kleiner Perkins .
  
highlights_snippet: jurors eventually voted against Ellen Pao .
  