Today, when the IT business is at the peak of its development, and dozens of startups are born and die every day in the famous Silicon Valley, everything depends on big 'tycoons' who decide the fate of entire companies. Without a doubt, most of them are men, but although March 8 has already passed, I will talk about the most powerful women in Silicon Valley.
11. Amanda Bradford
The League, Founder, CEO
The League app is the celebrity equivalent of Tinder. With $ 2.1 million in seed capital, Amanda's app was meant to bring the famous singles together.
The League was first launched in San Francisco in early 2015, after which it became available in New York and then in London.
10. Mary Meeker
Kleiner Perkins, Investor
Kleiner Perkins is a legendary Silicon Valley venture capital firm. Over the past year, Kleiner Perkins has made investments in Slack, Snapchat, Instacart, Magic Leap and many other successful projects.
Nineteen companies from her portfolio went public or were acquired in the past year, including such giants as Lending Club and Dropcam.
9. Liz Wessel
Campus Job, Co-founder
Launched by former Google employee Liz Wessel, Campus Job enables college and university students to quickly find jobs or internships. About 90% of Campus Job's offerings are paid, and the company claims 10,000 new users join the project every week.
Liz began work on Campus Job while still a student at the University of Pennsylvania, and now well-known corporations pay to post their jobs on Campus Job.
8. Aarti Ramamuruthy
Lumoid, Founder
Artie Ramamuruti is the founder of Lumoid, a 'try-before-buy' gadget rental service.
Lumoid gives people the ability to use the device they want to make the final decision about (not) purchasing it.
7. Renee James
Intel President
Renee is the second CEO Intel, and she wants to fundamentally change the internal infrastructure of the company, making the ratio of male to female employees equal.
James has already invested $ 300 million in her initiative, and according to former CEO Intel Andy Grove, who described James as a 'reckless, calculating, impatient, but very smart person' if her idea proves to be successful by 2020 , then other big tech companies in Silicon Valley – places where women and members of all sorts of minorities are not in demand by employers – could adopt this approach to recruiting.
6. Brit Morin
Brit + Co., Founder, CEO
Nicknamed 'Martha Stewart of Silicon Valley', Brit Morin specializes in the intersection of DIY and modern technology, and it turns out to be a very lucrative business. In 2011, Maureen launched Brit + Co. – a site dedicated to lifestyle, crafts, fashion and decor, and to date the company has attracted more than $ 30 million in investment.
Before diving into the creation of her website, Brit managed to fall in love with the IT world as an employee of Google and Apple, where she worked as part of the Google Maps and iTunes teams, respectively.
5.Sarah Leary
Nextdoor, Co-founder
Nextdoor was initially launched in the US in 2011 and became available in the Netherlands last October.
In March 2015, Nextdoor, a social network built on the principle of 'neighborhood', received another influx of investments in the amount of 110 million dollars, which increased the company's value to 1.1 billion and automatically transferred Nextdoor to the category of so-called unicorn companies.
4. Susan Wojcicki
YouTube, CEO
When Susan Wojitski, a longtime Google employee and marketing professional, was appointed head of YouTube in early 2014, her primary goal was to help the famous video service monetize its audience more effectively.
It was she who, in October of the same year, announced from the stage of the Re / Code Mobile Conference about the possible appearance of a subscription that excludes advertising – and, as we know, YouTube Red, which is now popular in the West, has become such a subscription.
3. Safra Catz
Oracle, CEO
In September 2014, after stepping down as CEO, Oracle founder Larry Ellison delegated his powers to Mark Herd and Safra Katz, who until that moment was a member of the leadership and was the financial president.
She is now the highest paid female director in the world.
2. Lynda Weinman
Lynda.com, Co-founder
In April 2015, online learning site Lynda was acquired by LinkedIn for $ 1.5 billion in stock. As a result, a huge audience of LinkedIn users (at that time more than 350 million people) gained access to Lynda.com's impressive learning knowledge base. This resource was founded in 1995 by Linda Weinman and her husband Bruce Hevin.
The site provides an opportunity to study business, technology, programming and design through training videos. People can access Lynda.com on their own, and there is the option of purchasing a subscription for schools, institutions and large corporations.
1. Elizabeth Holmes
Theranos, CEO, Founder, Chairman
When Elizabeth was a sophomore at Stanford in 2003, she founded the medical technology company Theranos (she dropped out a few months later to focus on developing her brainchild).
For the next 10 years, the company was engaged in the creation of a revolutionary method of blood analysis, characterized by high speed of results and the need to use only a few drops of blood instead of a whole tube, as with traditional methods of diagnosis. Holmes became the youngest female billionaire in the United States in early 2015 after Theranos negotiated with the largest US drugstore brands to supply her low-cost tests, with a fortune of $ 4.6 billion.