Chapters (45)
- Cover
- Dedication
- Pulse
- ONE
- TWO
- THREE
- FOUR
- FIVE
- SIX
- SEVEN
- EIGHT
- NINE
- TEN
- ELEVEN
- TWELVE
- THIRTEEN
- FOURTEEN
- FIFTEEN
- SIXTEEN
- SEVENTEEN
- EIGHTEEN
- NINETEEN
- TWENTY
- TWENTY–ONE
- TWENTY–TWO
- TWENTY–THREE
- TWENTY–FOUR
- TWENTY–FIVE
- TWENTY–SIX
- TWENTY–SEVEN
- TWENTY–EIGHT
- TWENTY–NINE
- THIRTY
- THIRTY–ONE
- THIRTY–TWO
- THIRTY–THREE
- THIRTY–FOUR
- THIRTY–FIVE
- THIRTY–SIX
- THIRTY–SEVEN
- THIRTY–EIGHT
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- RESOURCES
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
- What’s next onyour reading list?
To Katelyn Detweiler, my deepest gratitude for, well, everything. Your editorial insights make me a better writer, and your warmth, optimism, and steadfast belief make me an indebted one. I appreciate all that you and everyone at Jill Grinberg Literary Management do every day on my behalf.
Many startups owe their success to a “friends and family round” and so do I. This book wouldn’t be here without the help of Pamela Ardila, Jen Brooks, Lee Kelly, Chandler Baker, Kelly Loy Gilbert, and especially Natalie Mae, whose previous life as a programmer ensured the accuracy and authenticity of both the coding and the experiences of the women in this book. You are all wildly talented—the embodiment of “girl empowered”—and your friendship and support mean everything to me.
I wouldn’t be in this career without the love and understanding of my family—my parents, Denise and Frank, in-laws, Martha and Steve, and the Marangos and Goldstein families. Thank you especially for putting up with my deadlines!
On the subject of those deadlines . . . writing would not be my version of startup’s “big hairy audacious goal,” without one particular person. Thank you, Marc, for reading every word, and for letting me know the ones that need to change and the ones that make you laugh and cry (sorry!). Thank you for always being my angel investor.
This book is about taking chances. Like the ones taken by the pioneering women in this book and by the women today who are forging new paths in STEM and making their voices heard in the #metoo movement. Thank you to all the women who are standing up, often in the face of discrimination and seemingly insurmountable odds, to empower the next generation. As much as I hope Lucy, Maddie, and Delia are role models for girls pursuing interests in STEM, I also hope they represent the other key tenet of this book: the power of friendship.
RESOURCES
Thanks to the following online sources for the background that informed the definitions used in the chapter titles: Silicon Valley Dictionary, Investopedia, Funding Sage, Techopedia, Cambridge Dictionary, Martin Fowler, Wired, Medium, and TechCrunch.
While I have previously worked in IT publishing, many sources contributed to the base of knowledge for the experiences of women in tech, notably Emily Chang’s Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys’ Club of Silicon Valley and The Atlantic’s “Why Is Silicon Valley So Awful to Women?” Statistics and facts cited in the book come from the following: the Department for Professional Employees’ “The Professional and Technical Workforce”; Boardroom Insiders’ “2018 State of Women CIOs in the Fortune 500”; The New Yorker’s “The Tech Industry’s Gender-Discrimination Problem”; Microsoft’s “Closing the Stem Gap”; The Atlantic’s “How Self-Tracking Apps Exclude Women” and “Are the New iPhones Too Big for Women’s Hands?”; Fortune’s “The Number of Women in Computing Has Plummeted”; NPR’s “When Women Stopped Coding”; and Catalyst’s “Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM).”