Reddit CEO: aim of Silicon Valley sex discrimination suit to end 'boys' club'

Ellen Pao said she is suing her former venture capital firm for eight figures because only an amount that large would 'hit their radar'

The woman at the center of a landmark $16m Silicon Valley sex discrimination case said she was suing her former venture capital employer for such a large amount because only an eight-figure settlement would "hit their radar" and force change in the west coast technology scene's "boys' club".

Ellen Pao, who was fired by prestigious venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers after she complained about sexual discrimination, told jurors in a San Francisco court that she had "gone through every possible internal process I thought I could go through" to try and raise her concerns with the firm's management.

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