If you think Steve Jobs and Bill Gates are the only ones running the field of technology, please delete that foul thought pronto! Fortunately, there are some fabulous entrepreneurial madames who have taken the Internet by its reins and you can now learn about them…
The Daily Beast reports:
Poornima Vijayashanker has never been afraid to take risks. In 2006, she jumped ship on her master’s in computer science at Stanford University to join the Mint.com team as its third employee and founding software engineer, aka “code monkey.” As the only female on the team, she got “picked on a lot.” But she thrived nonetheless, handling nearly everything from front-end to back-end. She even came up with the company’s name.
(Click here to view the full story on The Daily Beast)
Because The Daily Beast‘s list (above) is limited to 13 women, we should not forget our mesdames of color: Lynne D Johnson, Angela Benton and Liz Burr, who are also taking the Internet business by storm.
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