12 June 2017 | Recruiting, Workplace
Duolingo is a steadily growing, well-funded startup company with 80 employees in a colorful Pittsburgh office that features the obligatory ping pong tables, hammocks, and mod diner booths for employee collaboration. (Its office was recently named one of the city’s...
5 June 2017 | Allies, Interview, Motivation
Craig Newmark has been on a tear recently with his support of getting more women into tech and advancing women already in tech. In partnership with Women Who Tech, he’s just closed the fifth year of a startup competition created specifically for women founders....
1 June 2017 | Career, Founders
This month Laura Moser, founder of Daily Action, announced that after using digital messaging to give hundreds of thousands of Americans daily activism tasks in the wake of Donald Trump’s election win, she’s now taking on a major new task of her own:...
31 May 2017 | Media & Culture, Motivation, Next Generation
Women currently hold less than 25% of STEM careers, so it’s almost a reflex to categorize STEM as a “career field for men.” But why—after years of progressive strides for women—are there so few of us working in STEM industries? Partly, it’s a...
30 May 2017 | Interview, Leadership
Jennifer Holmgren, CEO of LanzaTech, is a force of nature. She’s not your typical CEO – aggressive, type A, “all about the company.” Rather, she’s an Energy Whisperer. Her company uses science (biology, chemistry, environmental science,...
26 May 2017 | Menu-Editors-Pick
Andréa Koval spent seven years in San Francisco working in the VC and startup scene. Her frustrations with the glaring inequity between men and women when it comes to startup funding led her to launch something of a social art project/public prank. I’d like to...
