📚Book Review: RESET by Ellen Pao

My Fight for Inclusion and Lasting Change

This is a bit of insider baseball in the tech and Venture Capitalist world, but I liked it a lot. “The daughter of immigrants, Pao was taught that through hard work she could achieve her dreams. She earned multiple Ivy League degrees, worked at top startups, and in 2005 was recruited by Kleiner Perkins, arguably the world’s leading venture capital firm at the time. In many ways, she did everything right, and yet she and other women and people of color were excluded from success — cut out of decisive meetings and email discussions, uninvited to CEO dinners and lavish networking trips, and had their work undercut or appropriated by male executives. It was time for a system reset.” Ms. Pao was also the CEO of Reddit when they got rid of most of the hate/revenge porn subs on that site.

👍 Recommended!

Amazon Link: Reset: My Fight for Inclusion and Lasting Change

J. Scott Christianson is a technologist and an Associate Teaching Professor of management at the Trulaske College of Business, where his interests are focused on the impact of technology on society. You can connect with him on his website, LinkedIn, Twitter, or by following his newsletter, The Free-Range Technologist.