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Ellen Pao

Tech investor, author of "Reset", ex-reddit CEO, former VC, tech exec

San Francisco, California

Invests in

Stages:

  • Min Investment:

    $10,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $50,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $25,000.00

Skills

Strategic Partnerships
Start-ups
SaaS
Venture Capital
Entrepreneurship
Enterprise Software
Business Development
Business Planning
Mergers & Acquisitions
Leadership
Telecommunications
Strategy
Strategic Planning
Product Marketing
Go-to-market Strategy
Product Management
Management
Analytics
Mobile Devices
Business Strategy

Work Experience

  • CEO

    2015

    Project Include wants to give everyone in tech a fair chance to succeed. We provide meaningful, data-driven diversity recommendations to tech startup CEOs who want to build and support an inclusive workforce. We believe in solutions that are inclusive of everyone, comprehensive, and metrics-driven. We collect, analyze and share data on employee demographics and sentiment levels to help create benchmarks for tech startups and CEOs.

Data & Society

2022

  • Board Member

    2022

  • Board Member and Audit Committee

    2021

2017 - 2022

  • Board Member and Audit Committee

    2017 - 2022

Kapor Center/Kapor Capital

2017 - 2018

  • Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer/Venture Partner

    2017 - 2018

2013 - 2015

  • Interim CEO

    2014 - 2015

    Banned unauthorized nude photos and revenge porn as first major platform to take a stand; Google, Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft and others quickly copied us. Banned harassing subreddits from the site. Rebuilt team culture and organization, built first executive team, created anti-harassment policy, ran offsite, moved offices, implemented compensation ranges, created product roadmap and planning process, hired, ran first stock options 101 session, created speakers series (including Susan Wu, Brian Armstrong, Andy Rubin)

  • EVP, Business Development and Strategic Partnerships

    2013 - 2014

  • Consultant

    2013 - 2013

2011 - 2012

  • Board Member

    2011 - 2012

2010 - 2012

  • Board Member

    2010 - 2012

  • Board member

    2008 - 2012

  • Partner

    2005 - 2012