"If KPCB was some kind of discriminative entity, wouldn't we have heard about it sooner?" This is a misleading argument. If discrimination occurs in a organisa

"If KPCB was some kind of discriminative entity, wouldn't we have heard about it sooner?" This is a misleading argument. If discrimination occurs in a organisation and is reported, then someone has to report it first. Claiming that the first person to report it is not credible because they are first, and there have not been prior reports, is fallacious. (To be clear, I'm not taking a side wrt Pao or KPCB. I've never heard of this case before, and know nothing about it. The other reasons you cite may be correct for all I know.)