Pao's maternal grandparents are Yu-Wen Lee and Ching-Hsin Lee (née Liu), who were from Baoding in the Hebei province near Beijing. Young-Ping Pao died in 1987 when Ellen was in her final year of high school. The Pao family raised their children in Maplewood, New Jersey. Pao is fluent in English and Mandarin and first learned to code from her mother at age ten. Her mother, Tsyh-Wen Pao (née Lee) worked as an engineer in computer sciences at the University of Pennsylvania. Her father, Young-Ping Pao, was a professor at New York University's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. She is the middle child of three daughters born to Tsyh-Wen Pao and Young-Ping Pao, immigrants from Taiwan. Early life and education Įllen Pao was born in 1970 in New Jersey. Since 2016, she has been the co-founder and CEO of the non-profit diversity consulting organization Project Include. The backlash she received sparked debates both on the treatment of women in technology and the need for transparency in a company that relies on volunteers. In 2015, decisions made by the company during her tenure, such as the banning of controversial Reddit communities for harassment, shadow banning legitimate accounts, and failing to fix the flawed karma system generated a wave of controversy that culminated in her stepping down. During this period, the site banned revenge porn, with other social media sites following suit. In 2014, she became interim CEO of Reddit. Pao first became known in 2012 for filing a failed gender discrimination suit against her employer, venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins, and has continued to express vocal criticism of the hiring and promotion practices in Silicon Valley. Ellen Kangru Pao (born 1970) is an American investor and former interim CEO of social media company Reddit.
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