Hers was perhaps a quieter success. At 38, Ellen Pao was a junior partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers—if no longer the leading venture-capital firm in the Silicon Valley, then certainly the most venerable. A former corporate attorney who had worked at several tech companies, including Microsoft, she did not attract headlines, as Fletcher had, but she nevertheless had a foothold in the higher circles of the business world. The daughter of Chinese immigrants, Pao’s résumé was as gold-plated as Fletcher’s. A Princeton graduate, she also had Harvard law and business degrees. Fletcher and Pao had married just six months before they bought the apartment. Their marriage, barely four months after they met, had surprised some friends, in large part because, for several years, Fletcher had been living with his longtime boyfriend, Hobart “Bo” Fowlkes Jr. But whatever had brought them together, they resonated as a couple. With their wealth and success, theirs was a powerful American Dream narrative—a story of obstacles overcome, and brilliance, hard work, intense drive, and ambition rewarded.
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