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Bloomberg: Ellen Pao recalled being on a private jet with male colleagues at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers when an outside entrepreneur proposed recruiting Marissa Mayer because she’s “really hot,” according to an investigator the venture capital firm hired to probe how it treated women. Pao’s description of locker room-like banter on a 2011 business trip was covered in a five-hour interview by the investigator, who later concluded her gender-discrimination complaints were unfounded. The investigator recounted the interview for a jury in a trial over Pao’s lawsuit against the Silicon Valley firm.