john doerr clearly didn't want his picture taken as he walked into court today hiding behind a staffer who tried to block news cameras. the la suit is being brought by the woman doerr mentored at the firm. ellen pow is being portrayed by her lawyers as a woman who outperformed male peers but was passed over promotion to general partner. kleiner perkins' defense has been that she was dismissive of subordinates, lacked interpersonal skills to work with others and was not trusted by the firm's hierarchy. cameras are being kept out of the courtroom, but case is being covered minute by minute on twitter and on blogs. on the stand today john doerr said he differed from his partners when he under out -- 60% of venture capitalists are women and doerr said at his firm it's 20%. pow filed the lawsuit due to sexual harassment and five months later fired and added the retaliation claim. she's become the interim ceo at the news media site reddit. the seventh graders saw the case today on the stand and. >> this is a case about sex discrimination and something they all know about. >> reporter: tomorr

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gerri: we saw a picture of ellen pao and john doerr, legendary founded the venture capital firm well known beyond silicon valley. interesting to see. the woman going up against the man fighting the titans of that interstate. >> doerr guided and supported her in the organization for many years. when she had the tryst, he offered to fire the guy and she said no. gerri: we have elka worner on the phone line. she has been in the san francisco superior court. i'm curious if ellen pao is even in the courtroom. >> yes, she is. she has not been here for the majority of the deliberations, but they gave everyone about 45 minutes including her attorneys and the kleiner perkins attorneys to get here, and she arrived smiling walked in confidently. she usually sits between two of her attorneys, but as they started reading back the verdict she wasn't smiling. the judge asked the jury to go back and deliberate some more on one of the counts which is the kleiner perkins retaliated by firing her, 8 of the jurors said no, they did not. 4 said yes, and that is not sufficient to reach the verdict. this i

pimm: john doerr arranged for her to go to the aspen institute. she hooked up with his friend, buddy fletcher. perhaps in the popular press known as the individual at the dakota apartments in new york who sued because they were not allowed to have another department. cory: the also had a hedge fund that spectacularly burned down. all of that information was kept away from the jury. that was kept at this trial. the history of her husband as well as the history of other lawsuits that they had fouled over time. she was his chief of staff before she was a partner at the firm. she was the one that worked most closely with him. quite often, on the phone, she would be the person that would respond. she is someone who really knew how it he worked rather closely. alix: in your experience researching this and being in silicon valley, who has more to lose in this? is it ellen pao or kleiner perkins or is the damage either way already done? cory: it is going to be incredibly hard for a woman who is been sexually harassed in any way small or large or real or p

there is no venture capitalist with a larger profile than john doerr.ve bigger competition now when you think of greylock and andreessen horowitz, kind of the new kid on the block. but let's not count them out. they were in nest, which sold to google. they were in snapchat. i think they need an influx of fresh or talent but it is still one of the eager names and i think it will survive this case despite the bad the city. -- bad publicity. publicity tom perkins brought to the firm with his infamous op piece about the 1%, where he compared the persecution of rich people, saying i would call attention to the parallels of fascist nazi germany and its 1%, namely it jews, to the progressive war on the rich. is that something about their culture where they just think they are different from everyone else? brad: i don't think so. even of the founding names, he was no longer at the firm. no organization is judged by its alumni. i think they have distanced themselves -- i don't think that hurt the brand as much as this trial has. it has been such a slow buildup t

hirshfield's investigator also talked about john doerr who was trying to dodge the cameras yesterday, hiding behind staffers before he took the stand for the second day. doerr is the kleiner perkins part partner who hired pao to be his chief of staff in 2005. hershfield said he described him as someone with a female chip on her shoulder and someone who quote, always seemed to blame the other person for the fact the relationship ended and he's talking about how pao and nasri had a relationship an affair together. another example, he called one executive stupid after he asked two female junior partners to take notes at a meetling not meeting to single out the two women in the room. that could be mistaken as a lack of sensitivity to women. really what's happening here is you're hearing little tidbits come out in this trial. this is day eight, by the way. another thing that we heard this morning was talking about the executive who comes from an oracle background, a former president and coo there, how there's a culture of affairs there, how he had married a secretary after having an affair

the last two days john doerr took the stand, the kleiner perkins partner who was dodging news cameras yesterday hired pao in 2005 to be his chief of staff. pao left as a junior partner back in 2012. pao's attorneys say she outperformed her male peers who with less tenure were promoted to senior levels over here. kleiner perkins defense attorneys say management didn't trust pao because she lacked the skills to work with others. the judge made a rare decision allowing jurors to submit written questions to witnesses for clarification. one such question yesterday, why there were so few women in venture capital, doerr says he doesn't advocate for women out of a sense of social justice but agrees there needs to be more diversity and says women make up 20% of the partners. babson college study last year found women held 6% in 2013, a drop from 10% in 1999. now again pao is set to take the stand today, the trial starts at 9:00 this morning at the civic center courthouse. we'll bring you updates at our midday show at 11:00 this morning. live in san francisco, stephanie chuang, "today in the ba

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and john doerr, who has been the greatest central capitalist of the last two decades, has been her biggestthe way through. her advocate as we have seen in the testimony, and i think more importantly if you are a venture capitalist and you want to make money you want about other voice at the table. anything, the logic would say to me i want to make money, women are good for business, she is really smart, i want her to succeed, maybe she has him personality issues because we have seen that come out in the testimony, but i think for me the simplest view is -- they may have made some missteps, but fundamentally they want women to succeed. she may not be the most brilliant queen of the internet for morgan stanley. it is not like they wanted powerful, important, successful women in the firm. betty: and there were certainly some dings against her, as you heard throughout the trial. if she wins and she gets through $16 million, is that still good for silicon valley? scott: i think so. all venture firms are going to go here and say wait a minute, only 6% of the women -- of the people are women. peo