"The women had twice as many years at Kleiner, but only the men got promoted," Pao writes. : Pao, a longtime venture capitalist and former CEO of Reddit, grabbed headlines in 2015 when a gender discrimination suit she filed against VC firm Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield and Byers went to trial. The case — in which Pao alleged workplace retaliation by a male employee following a brief affair — was decided in Kleiner Perkins' favor.