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The Throwback Sexism of Kleiner Perkins

Harvard Business Review

The high-profile gender discrimination lawsuit by Ellen Pao against the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins is being discussed as if it’s emblematic of gender bias in tech. Kleiner Perkins is not just about the kind of subtle stereotyping that’s common at many large tech companies. Kleiner Perkins ultimately fired Nazre.)

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Does Silicon Valley Still Care About Climate Change?

Harvard Business Review

Earlier this month, venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins began the process of separating its cleantech investing from the rest of its fund. Ten years after Kleiner star John Doerr was moved to tears during his TED talk about climate change , there’s no longer any question that VCs’ interest in clean energy is waning.