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Inside the Sisterhood Shaking Up Tech
St. Martin's Press
June 2017
On Sale: May 23, 2017
272 pages
ISBN: 1250112265
EAN: 9781250112262
Kindle: B01M8PHZVE
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Meet the women who haven't asked for permission from Silicon
Valley to chase their dreams. They are going for it --
building the next generation of tech start-ups, investing in
each other's ventures, crushing male hacker stereotypes and
rallying women and girls everywhere to join the digital
revolution. Geek Girl Rising isn't about the famous tech
trailblazers you already know, like Sheryl Sandberg and
Marissa Mayer. Instead, veteran journalists Heather Cabot
and Samantha Walravens introduce readers to the fearless
female entrepreneurs and technologists fighting at the
grassroots level for an ownership stake in the revolution
that's changing the way we live, work and connect to each
other. Readers will meet Debbie Sterling, inventor of GoldieBlox,
the first engineering toy for girls, which topples the
notion that only boys can build. They'll get a peek inside
YouTube sensation Michelle Phan's ipsy studios, where she is
grooming the next generation of digital video stars while
leading her own mega e-commerce beauty business. They will
sit down with Tracy Chou, former lead software developer at
Pinterest, whose public urging in 2013 helped push Silicon
Valley tech giants to reveal the tiny number of women in
their ranks, propelling the "women in tech" conversation to
front pages. They will tour the headquarters of The Muse, the hottest
career site for millennials and meet its intrepid CEO,
Kathryn Minshew, who stared down sexism while raising
millions of dollars to fund the company she co-founded. And
they will journey around the country to meet a new crop of
female investors, including Theresia Gouw and Kathryn
Finney, who are infusing women-led tech start-ups with much
needed capital. These women are the rebels proving that a
female point of view matters in the age of technology and
can rock big returns. At a time when women hold 26% of
computing jobs in the U.S. and make up a tiny fraction of
the entrepreneurs launching new tech companies, their
stories shine a light on new role models who prove that in
the fast-moving innovation economy, there is a place for
anyone who has a big idea and the passion to build it.
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