Detractors Say The Problem Wasn't Reddit, It Was Pao

Ellen Pao's critics see her resignation from Reddit as a sign she didn't have the skills to be a successful CEO of the company.
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Over the course of Ellen Pao's high-profile gender discrimination trial earlier this year, Kleiner Perkins' defense team sought to show that Pao's dismissal from the company was about skills, not gender bias. At least some people in the Twitterverse agreed that the same dynamic was in play in her resignation today from Reddit.

Others were more conflicted about the connection between widespread criticism of Pao on the site and her departure from the company.

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And some weren't conflicted at all.

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