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Author: Shearling Coats Publisher: Shearling Coats ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 135
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Ingrid Steinbeck probably knows more about genetics than her dad. Ingrid definitely knows what happened to the two guys who disappeared from campus and why Bill Gates and Steve Jobs are in her dad's kitchen and in their twenties again. And Ingrid knows what happened to the two faculty women who disappeared and what Bill and Steve did with all that code they were working so hard on. Ingrid could have predicted a lot about what a girl named iCandy and a girl named Ms Hardrive would do when they got put together according to plan. It's just that Ingrid was distracted with her idea of a personal makeover that she started with and now she had to decide who she really wanted to be.
Author: Shearling Coats Publisher: Shearling Coats ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 135
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Ingrid Steinbeck probably knows more about genetics than her dad. Ingrid definitely knows what happened to the two guys who disappeared from campus and why Bill Gates and Steve Jobs are in her dad's kitchen and in their twenties again. And Ingrid knows what happened to the two faculty women who disappeared and what Bill and Steve did with all that code they were working so hard on. Ingrid could have predicted a lot about what a girl named iCandy and a girl named Ms Hardrive would do when they got put together according to plan. It's just that Ingrid was distracted with her idea of a personal makeover that she started with and now she had to decide who she really wanted to be.
Author: Mark S. Luckie Publisher: Windsor Hills ISBN: 9780578778563 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 436
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**Now available for Pre-Order** Rising star Kelsey Pace has landed the role of a lifetime as communications manager for Elemynt, one of the world's most popular social media apps. Not only is it the job she's always dreamed of, but the workplace is a corporate fantasyland where free gourmet meals are available at the swipe of a badge and complimentary spa services are one building away. What starts off for Kelsey as a series of positive public relations campaigns evolves into a whirlwind of defending the company against global scandals, scrutinizing media exposés, and raging battles between employees that spill into public view. The tangle of secrets she is tasked with hiding reveals to her the increasingly challenging personal and moral sacrifices she'll have to make to keep the company on top.
Author: Julian Guthrie Publisher: Currency ISBN: 0525573925 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 306
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An unforgettable story of four women who, through grit and ingenuity, became stars in the cutthroat, high-stakes, male dominated world of venture capital in Silicon Valley, and helped build some of the foremost companies of our time. In Alpha Girls, award-winning journalist Julian Guthrie takes readers behind the closed doors of venture capital, an industry that transforms economies and shapes how we live. We follow the lives and careers of four women who were largely written out of history - until now. Magdalena Yesil, who arrived in America from Turkey with $43 to her name, would go on to receive her electrical engineering degree from Stanford, found some of the first companies to commercialize internet access, and help Marc Benioff build Salesforce. Mary Jane Elmore went from the corn fields of Indiana to Stanford and on to the storied venture capital firm IVP - where she was one of the first women in the U.S. to make partner - only to be pulled back from the glass ceiling by expectations at home. Theresia Gouw, an overachieving first-generation Asian American from a working-class town, dominated the foosball tables at Brown (she would later reluctantly let Sergey Brin win to help Accel Partners court Google), before she helped land and build companies including Facebook, Trulia, Imperva, and ForeScout. Sonja Hoel, a Southerner who became the first woman investing partner at white-glove Menlo Ventures, invested in McAfee, Hotmail, Acme Packet, and F5 Networks. As her star was still rising at Menlo, a personal crisis would turn her into an activist overnight, inspiring her to found an all-women's investment group and a national nonprofit for girls. These women, juggling work and family, shaped the tech landscape we know today while overcoming unequal pay, actual punches, betrayals, and the sexist attitudes prevalent in Silicon Valley and in male-dominated industries everywhere. Despite the setbacks, they would rise again to rewrite the rules for an industry they love. In Alpha Girls, Guthrie reveals their untold stories.
Author: Maya Morrow Publisher: Dorrance Publishing ISBN: 1480942448 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 244
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Silicon Valley Girl (Hardcover Version) by Maya Morrow Inspired by the life and works of poet Sylvia Plath, including Plath’s published journals, Maya Morrow presents her own coming-of-age journey in this collection of raw and uncensored diaries spanning a decade and a half. The story begins Christmas 1984 and ends in 1999, when the author, twenty-six, rediscovers the handwritten diaries for the first time. “These diaries are compelling enough on their own,” Morrow writes. “However, what makes this coming-of-age story different from many others is that it gives the reader a glimpse of not just an average, American middle class girl’s life – it highlights the fact that my life was that, and I’m Afro American. When The Cosby Show came on, I saw my family on television, and didn’t understand why the media said the show was an unrealistic depiction of African American life. It was realistic; it was my life!” Set against a backdrop of cultural touchstones any Gen-Xer would recognize, Silicon Valley Girl: My Adolescent Life and Times, and an Ode to Generation X offers a deeply personal look at the emotional life of a teenager of color trying to make sense of race, class, and sexuality at the dawn of Post-Cold War America. (2017, Hardcover, 242 pages)
Author: Maya Morrow Publisher: Dorrance Publishing ISBN: 148093514X Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 245
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Silicon Valley Girl (Paperback) by Maya Morrow Inspired by the life and works of poet Sylvia Plath, including Plath’s published journals, Maya Morrow presents her own coming-of-age journey in this collection of raw and uncensored diaries spanning a decade and a half. The story begins Christmas 1984 and ends in 1999, when the author, twenty-six, rediscovers the handwritten diaries for the first time. “These diaries are compelling enough on their own,” Morrow writes. “However, what makes this coming-of-age story different from many others is that it gives the reader a glimpse of not just an average, American middle class girl’s life – it highlights the fact that my life was that, and I’m Afro American. When The Cosby Show came on, I saw my family on television, and didn’t understand why the media said the show was an unrealistic depiction of African American life. It was realistic; it was my life!” Set against a backdrop of cultural touchstones any Gen-Xer would recognize, Silicon Valley Girl: My Adolescent Life and Times, and an Ode to Generation X offers a deeply personal look at the emotional life of a teenager of color trying to make sense of race, class, and sexuality at the dawn of Post-Cold War America. (2017, Paperback, 242 pages)
Author: Kelley Steven-Waiss Publisher: Forbesbooks ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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Valley Girls is an impassioned call-to-action and a clear-eyed guide for every woman with a brilliant business idea who has been sitting on the sidelines. It offers inspiration, role models, and a clear path to empower women to follow their dreams. Author Kelley Steven-Waiss, founder and former CEO of the SaaS tech start-up Hitch Works ("Hitch"), knew that less than 3% of venture capital went to all-women founding teams in the year she set out to be an entrepreneur. And yet, she managed to succeed. Now, she gives other women the benefit of her experience as well as that of the diverse female founders she interviewed. What did they all have in common? Which strategies brought success and which failed? How did they persevere through the hard times? This practical, hands-on guide and the powerful and passionate women profiled in it answer these questions and more, paving the way for all women to succeed.
Author: Shortcut Edition Publisher: Shortcut Edition ISBN: Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 35
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* Our summary is short, simple and pragmatic. It allows you to have the essential ideas of a big book in less than 30 minutes. As you read this summary, you will discover how four women who started from scratch conquered the world of "tech" and rewrote the very masculine history of Silicon Valley. You will also discover : who these women are and how they did it; how to integrate and be respected in a team or an exclusively male sector; that crises in an industry are an opportunity to make career bets; how to create powerful women's networks to encourage other talented women to grow. When you hear "Silicon Valley", you probably immediately picture yourself as an entrepreneur. You think success, talent, audacity... in masculine terms. Yet many women have helped these men continue their quest for innovation. These leading women, or "Alpha Girls", are little known. Magdalena Yeşil, Mary Jane Elmore, Theresia Gouw, Sonja Hoel have led a meteoric rise in a doubly discriminating environment. None of tomorrow's technological revolutions will take place without them. Are you curious to know who they are? *Buy now the summary of this book for the modest price of a cup of coffee!
Author: France Winddance Twine Publisher: NYU Press ISBN: 1479835153 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 296
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Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2023 An inside account of gender and racial discrimination in the high-tech industry Why is being a computer “geek” still perceived to be a masculine occupation? Why do men continue to greatly outnumber women in the high-technology industry? Since 2014, a growing number of employment discrimination lawsuits has called attention to a persistent pattern of gender discrimination in the tech world. Much has been written about the industry’s failure to adequately address gender and racial inequalities, yet rarely have we gotten an intimate look inside these companies. In Geek Girls, France Winddance Twine provides the first book by a sociologist that “lifts the Silicon veil” to provide firsthand accounts of inequality and opportunity in the tech ecosystem. This work draws on close to a hundred interviews with male and female technology workers of diverse racial, ethnic, and educational backgrounds who are currently employed at tech firms such as Apple, Facebook, Google, and Twitter, and at various start-ups in the San Francisco Bay area. Geek Girls captures what it is like to work as a technically skilled woman in Silicon Valley. With a sharp eye for detail and compelling testimonials from industry insiders, Twine shows how the technology industry remains rigged against women, and especially Black, Latinx, and Native American women from working class backgrounds. From recruitment and hiring practices that give priority to those with family, friends, and classmates employed in the industry, to social and educational segregation, to academic prestige hierarchies, Twine reveals how women are blocked from entering this industry. Women who do not belong to the dominant ethnic groups in the industry are denied employment opportunities, and even actively pushed out, despite their technical skills and qualifications. While the technology firms strongly embrace the rhetoric of diversity and oppose discrimination in the workplace, Twine argues that closed social networks and routine hiring practices described by employees reinforce the status quo and reproduce inequality. The myth of meritocracy and gender stereotypes operate in tandem to produce a culture where the use of race-, color-, and power-evasive language makes it difficult for individuals to name the micro-aggressions and forms of discrimination that they experience. Twine offers concrete insights into how the technology industry can address ongoing racial and gender disparities, create more transparency and empower women from underrepresented groups, who continued to be denied opportunities.
Author: Gloria Jean Bodenmuller Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781515359548 Category : Languages : en Pages : 428
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Hi my name is gloria jean Bodenmuller, i am an author and speaker, born and raised in what is now Silicon Valley. i have written my memoirs about Silicon Valley when it was known as Santa Clara Valley. i believe this is applicable for today, as Silicon Valley is world renowned. Therefore, my hope is to tell people throughout the world and show them through pictures and story, what it was like back in the day."
Author: Sania Jain Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781540504685 Category : Languages : en Pages : 70
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GIRLS. What's the first thing you think about? Let me guess. Probably some barbie dolls or Rapunzel in a tower saying, "Save me, my hero. I'm helpless!" People think girls are so "helpless." We want to change that. Girls have their own strength and power. It all started when we saw a bunch of boys clustered in the tech lab and only a few girls. We were part of those few girls and we felt like we didn't exactly belong there. If you're one of those discouraged girls, that's where we come along. With our campaign #SiliconValleySisters, we're trying to share the message that we're here to help encourage those passionate girls. Our first step in this process was to write the book, 'Silicon Valley Butterflies'. This book is about an Afghanistani girl who comes to Silicon Valley as a host student. There, she learns about several machines and how they work. This, sparks her passion and excitement to create something new. She also meets her friend Priya, who is what people call a "girly girl," who changes her ideas about technology. Together, they create a community of girls. Thirty four years in the future, Roya wins the Nobel Peace Award for helping girls in tech. To learn more about Roya's accomplishments, please read our book. And if you like what we're doing, please 'follow' and 'like' our campaign at www.saniajain.com, https: //www.facebook.com/hellosania and https: //youtu.be/tq-DnSwUwec
Author: Shearling Coats
Author: Shearling Coats
Author: Mark S. Luckie
Author: Julian Guthrie
Author: Maya Morrow
Author: Maya Morrow
Author: Kelley Steven-Waiss
Author: Shortcut Edition
Author: France Winddance Twine
Author: Gloria Jean Bodenmuller
Author: Sania Jain