Break The Bias: The Top 5 Most Influential Women In Technology.
In honour of?#IWD2022, join us in celebrating women who have worked hard to attain top positions, drive innovative technology and direct successful businesses within the tech industry.
Whitney Wolfe Herd?- CEO and founder of?Bumble. She launched the site as a dating app in 2014 after having left Tinder, a company she helped build up and then sued after suffering sexual harassment there. Bumble has now expanded beyond dating to a larger social app. As described on the site, Bumble was designed to shift the playing field from the typical male-centered dating app to a way to connect that is safe and appealing for women.
Reshma Saujani?- The Founder of?Girls Who Code, a national non-profit organization devoted to closing the gender gap in technology by challenging stereotypes about programmers.
Saujani is the author of?Women Who Don't Wait in Line: Break the Mold, Lead the Way,?the New York Times bestseller,?Girls Who Code: Learn to Code and Change the World?and the international bestseller?Brave, Not Perfect: How Celebrating Imperfection Helps You Live Your Best, Most Joyful Life,?She presented the theme as the prerequisite for girls to achieve in the field of tech in her TED Talk,?"Teach girls bravery, not perfection."
Martha Lane Fox?- Co-founded?Last Minute?during the?dotcom boom?of the early 2000s and has subsequently served on public service digital projects. She sits on the?boards?of Twitter,?WeTransfer?and?Chanel, as well as being a?trustee?of The Queen's Commonwealth Trust.
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Kimberly Bryant?- In 2011 Bryant founded and became the CEO of?Black Girls CODE,?a non-profit organization dedicated to “changing the face of technology.”
Kimberly has an aim "To increase the number of women of colour in the digital space by empowering girls of colour ages 7 to 17 to become innovators in STEM fields, leaders in their communities, and builders of their own futures through exposure to computer science and technology. To provide African-American youth with the skills to occupy some of the 1.4 million computing job openings expected to be available in the U.S. by 2020, and to train 1 million girls by 2040."
Susan Wojcicki?- CEO of?YouTube, a position she has held since February 2014. Her Menlo Park garage was the original Google office. In 1998, Google cofounders Sergey Brin and Larry Page rented it to work on developing their search engine there. A year later she was hired as Google’s sixteenth employee.
At Google Wojcicki was involved in a wide variety of applications, including AdSense, Google Analytics, Google Books, and Google Images. But she is the one who saw great potential in video and pushed for the $1.65 billion acquisition of YouTube. She then advanced to CEO, and manages that Division of Alphabet that is now worth around $90 billion.