She's been called "the face of change" (Time) and a "feminist hero" (Elle). Women from Hillary Clinton to Sheryl Sandberg to Anita Hill have publicly supported her. In 2015, Ellen Pao's trial against the powerhouse venture capitalist firm Kleiner Perkins shook up Silicon Valley and riveted the nation as she spoke out against the subtle and insidious discrimination women, people of color, and others experience daily in corporate America. When she lost her case, her supporters were outraged, but Pao resolved to keep fighting. As CEO of reddit, she moved to ban revenge porn and online harassment and called for tech companies to uphold their moral responsibility. Her experiences, including her fight in the courts against a monolithic opponent, are told here in jaw-dropping detail. After it all, Pao realized, we need to hit reset. Her account is the story of a whistleblower who aims to empower anyone who struggles to be heard, in Silicon Valley and beyond.

Author Biography

Ellen K. Pao is the chief diversity and inclusion officer for Kapor Center for Social Impact and a venture partner at Kapor Capital, and co-founder of the award-winning diversity nonprofit Project Include. She was the CEO at reddit and a venture capitalist at Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers. Her writing has appeared in The Washington Post, TIME, Lenny, and Re/code. She has earned an engineering degree from Princeton and law and business degrees from Harvard. Her efforts to call attention to discrimination issues have led to the term the "Pao effect." Author Hometown- Maplewood, New Jersey