Ellen Pao
CEO at Project Include
Ellen Pao
CEO at Project Include
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
CEO
2015 - Current
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.
Project Include promotes diversity and inclusion through research and advocacy. We are a non-profit, and we are hiring.
Board Member
2022
Board Member and Audit Committee
2021
Expensify is a financial services company that provides an online expense management service for businesses.
Raised $138,200,000.00 from CIBC Innovation Banking and CIBC.
Board Member and Audit Committee
2017 - 2022
SMASH empowers brilliant underrepresented students with rigorous science, technology, engineering and math education, coursework.
Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer/Venture Partner
2017 - 2018
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
Reddit is an online platform that enables users to submit links, create content, and have discussions about the topics of their interest.
Raised $1,329,049,748.00 from Catamaran, Quiet Capital, Montauk Ventures, Bienville Capital and Fidelity.
Board Member
2011 - 2012
Datameer enables data engineers and analysts to transform data directly in Snowflake via a simple SQL code or no-code interface.
Raised $139,793,404.00 from NextWorld Capital, Kleiner Perkins, Top Tier Capital Partners, Citi Ventures, Redpoint and ST Telemedia.
Board Member
2010 - 2012
Flipboard is a developer of a mobile social magazine platform used to collect and share news articles from various news sources.
Raised $235,509,040.00 from JP Morgan Chase.
Board member
2008 - 2012
Partner
2005 - 2012
Kleiner Perkins is a venture capital firm that specializes in investing in early-stage, incubation, and growth companies.