CNET: Did Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers retaliate against Ellen Pao when it fired her? Ultimately, a jury said “no.” But it took two rounds of deliberations over two days to come to that decision. A jury of six men and six women rendered its verdict in a San Francisco court. Its initial findings: Ellen Pao had substantially lost her case against the prestigious Silicon Valley venture capital firm. People in the courtroom audibly gasped.