What we learned at Ellen Pao trial this week

SAN FRANCISCO—The chummy but hard-nosed culture at Silicon Valley venture capital firms was on display this week as a court heard testimony in a gender discrimination suit brought by Ellen Pao, a former junior partner at Kleiner Perkins, against her old firm.

Reporter Elizabeth Weise joins the weekly USA Today Tech podcast to fill listeners in on the highlights — all-male ski trips, performance reviews — from the first week of testimony in the trial.

Reporter Marco della Cava explains why Amazon hired former White House press secretary Jay Carney.

On the heels of a FCC decision to implement new rules designed to make sure Internet service providers treat all legal content equally, guest Brian Westbrook, a correspondent for KING TV-Seattle, explains why so many consumers are now suddenly, wildly interested in the subject

Columnist John Shinal discusses the forces that continue to drag down Hewlett-Packard.

And we discuss young people making apps that solve problems in their lives—from 22-year-old Sahil Lavingia, founder of start-up Gumroad, helps makers sell directly to consumers, to the young black students producing apps at a hackathon in Oakland, Calif.

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