Ellen Pao Disrupts How Silicon Valley Does Business

nytimes.com - Silicon Valley is enamored of “disrupters,” those shrewd, brave men — it is almost always men — who are hailed for enduring years of ridicule and risking everything to shake up the conventional order.

Now, in Ellen Pao, the Valley has found its newest disrupter. And the conventional order she has shaken up concerns the Valley itself and the clubby way of doing things in a place that fancies itself the emerging center of the world.

Often, Silicon Valley’s disrupters do not succeed on the terms they initially envision.