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Geek Girl Rising: Inside the Sisterhood Shaking Up Tech by Heather Cabot and Samantha Walravens
Hardcover – 27 June 2017
Meet the women who aren’t asking permission from Silicon Valley to chase their dreams.
They are going for it―building cutting-edge tech startups, investing in each other’s ventures, crushing male hacker stereotypes and rallying the next generation of women in tech.
With a nod to tech trailblazers like Sheryl Sandberg and Marissa Mayer, Geek Girl Rising introduces readers to the fearless female founders, technologists, and innovators fighting at a grassroots level for an ownership stake in the revolution that’s changing the way we live, work and connect.
Readers will meet Debbie Sterling, inventor of GoldieBlox, the first engineering toy for girls, which topples the notion that only boys can build; 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; and 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.
These women are the rebels proving that a female point of view matters in the age of technology and can rock big returns if you have a big idea and the passion to build it.
About the Authors
Heather Cabot is a former ABC News anchor/correspondent, adjunct professor at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and a Women@Forbes contributor.
Samantha Walravens is editor of the New York Times-acclaimed anthology TORN: True Stories of Kids, Career & the Conflict of Modern Motherhood and a contributor to Women@Forbes, the Huffington Post and Disney Interactive.
Product details
- Publisher : St Martin’s Press (27 June 2017)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 272 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1250112265
- ISBN-13 : 9781250112262
- Dimensions : 15.24 x 2.54 x 21.59 cm
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