Reddit ex-CEO: 'How I survived the largest trolling attack in history'

Ellen Pao, the former Chief Executive of online sharing forum Reddit, has spoken out in an interview about diversity, saying that she wanted to create a “fair environment” across the board, whilst also "fighting discrimination."

Speaking in an interview with The Guardian, Pao said: “Let’s make sure that our pay is fair across the whole company, and that helps everybody across the board – not just women and minorities, but also men who can’t negotiate, or managers who are bad negotiators whose teams aren’t happy because they’re not being paid the same amount.”

She also discussed discrimination in the American tech industry, and how people can be convinced it is a problem: “[There is a] lack of women and .. minorities in the workplace, which generates a problem with how they are treated.

“I think it’s going to take people telling their stories to get there, and people sharing data. Because it’s not something that’s going to be easy to convince people, and it’s going to take calling people out. Like: ‘Hey, do you realise that you just asked that woman to go get coffee for us? And is there a reason why you picked her?’ Or: ‘Did you realise that you gave everybody credit for the project except for the African-American guy who spent all of his time on it for the past three weeks?’