Mary Meeker: 'Kleiner Perkins is the best place to be a woman in the business'
Her take? She hasn't noticed any discrimination since she's been there.
In her lawsuit, Pao alleges that a male-dominated culture at Kleiner Perkins, characterized by harassment and abuse, meant she missed key opportunities to move her career forward.
But where Pao felt stifled by Kleiner Perkins, Meeker's career took off: She's been involved in KP's investments in Twitter, Jawbone, Spotify, and Waze, and is on Square's board.
Asked by Kleiner Perkins' own famously tough lawyer, Lynne Hermle, how she would describe her employment at Kleiner Perkins as a woman, Meeker offered a lengthy response in her employers' defense, per the Re/code liveblog:
To that tune, Meeker says that she never refused to meet with Pao during their time together at the firm, even after Pao filed her suit (though being on different teams, they wouldn't have had much opportunity). She also said that nobody else refused to meet with her to her recollection, either.
Meeker did say that the situation with Ajit Nazre, in which he harassed Trae Vassallo, another partner with the firm was "not a great situation."
But when asked if she had ever experienced discrimination herself, she just said "I have not."