If your career is equally or more remunerative than a payoff for silence, repairing your career-impacting public image would be equally or more valuable than a

If your career is equally or more remunerative than a payoff for silence, repairing your career-impacting public image would be equally or more valuable than a payoff. It is reasonable to anticipate Pao is not giving up get career, and expects to make more than 2M from it. The spin about her during this debate has made her look pretty bad. So... yeah. She could easily be motivated by money, in terms of investing in her long term earning potential.