Geek Girl Rising: Inside the Sisterhood Shaking Up Tech Audiobook (Free)

‘I have no idea much about tech, but I know these pioneer ladies are pretty dope. Geek Woman Rising provides much needed voice to the fearless females paving a significant route in the technology world, while developing a enduring sisterhood along the way.” – Kelly Ripa

The program is read by the writer, Heather Cabot.

Meet up with the women who haven’t requested permission from Silicon Valley to run after their dreams. They are going for this — building another generation of tech start-ups, buying each other’ about Geek Young lady Rising: Inside the Sisterhood Shaking Up Tech s projects, crushing male hacker stereotypes and rallying the next generation of ladies in tech. Geek Girl Increasing isn’t about the well-known technology trailblazers you already know, like Sheryl Sandberg and Marissa Mayer. Instead, veteran journalists Heather Cabot and Samantha Walravens introduce listeners towards the fearless female business owners and technologists fighting in the grassroots level for an ownership stake in the revolution that’s changing the way we live, work and connect to each other.

Listeners will meet Debbie Sterling, inventor of GoldieBlox, the first engineering toy for girls, which topples the notion that only males can build. They’ll get yourself a peek inside YouTube feeling Michelle Phan’s ipsy studios, where she actually is grooming another era of digital video celebrities while leading her own mega e-commerce beauty business. They’ll sit back with Tracy Chou, previous lead software creator at Pinterest, whose open public urging in 2013 helped drive Silicon Valley technology giants to reveal the small number of women in their ranks, propelling the “ladies in technology” conversation to front webpages. They will tour the headquarters of The Muse, the latest 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’ll journey around the united states to meet a fresh 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 a female point of view matters in the age of technology and will rock big returns. At the same time when women keep 26% of processing careers in the U.S. and make up a tiny portion of the entrepreneurs launching new technology companies, these stories shine a light on brand-new role models who confirm that in the fast-moving innovation economy, there’s a place for anyone who has a big idea and the passion to create it.