Thank you to Business Insider for listing me among the 100 most influential tech women on Twitter. Proud to be number 76! I’m usually a skeptic about these sorts of lists (even when I’m on them). For this one, Business Insider used PeerIndex, a social media analytics tool that assigns users a score of 0-100 [Keep Reading…]
Equality and Transparency at Conferences
Yesterday I received information that speakers at GiantConf were being unequally compensated. [Their response] I did not take the news well. I got angry and I reacted harshly rather than respond with mindfulness and compassion. Feeling deceived, I went to a negative place rather than attempt to make the situation positive. I appreciate that the [Keep Reading…]
Who Gets Billion-Dollar Acquisitions?
Oculus VR acquired by Facebook for $2 Billion in 2014 WhatsApp acquired by Facebook for $19 Billion in 2014 AirWatch acquired by VMware for $1.54 Billion in 2014 Nest acquired by Google for $3.2 Billion in 2013 SoftLayer acquired by IBM for $2 Billion in 2013 Tumblr acquired by Yahoo for $1.1 Billion in 2013 [Keep Reading…]
Is Empathy “Women’s Work”?
In late 2010, I studied the number of women at high-profile startups, and found that if a startup employed women at all, it was far more often in a “selling” role than in a “making” one. That’s quite a disadvantage for companies whose customer base is primarily women. Despite Etsy’s news last month that they’d [Keep Reading…]
