Liz Gannes

“We’re the Toms shoes of water bottles.”

Kleiner is a very pro-woman place, she said.

For Pao, whose polarizing personality may well trounce many of the subtleties of the case, establishing a larger gender narrative is key.

Some 78 percent of venture capital firms have never employed a woman investor, according to new research.

“How long does it take to become a thought leader? Can it be learned? Can it be taught? Is it possible to never become one?”

Where is the “thought leadership”?

“We didn’t have lots of issues, we had one issue.”

“This is troubling me.”