‘I have no idea much about tech, but I know these pioneer women are fairly dope. Geek Female Rising provides much needed voice towards the fearless ladies paving an important path in the technology world, while forming a long lasting sisterhood along the way.” – Kelly Ripa

This program is read by the author, Heather Cabot.

Meet the women who haven’t asked for permission from Silicon Valley to run after their dreams. They are going for this — building the next generation of technology start-ups, buying each various other’ about Geek Female Rising: In the Sisterhood Shaking Up Technology s ventures, crushing male hacker stereotypes and rallying the next generation of ladies in technology. Geek Girl Increasing isn’t about the well-known tech trailblazers you know, like Sheryl Sandberg and Marissa Mayer. Rather, veteran journalists Heather Cabot and Samantha Walravens present listeners towards the fearless feminine business owners and technologists fighting on the grassroots level for an possession stake in the trend that’s changing the way we live, work and connect to each other.

Listeners will meet up with Debbie Sterling, inventor of GoldieBlox, the first engineering toy for girls, which topples the notion that only young boys may build. They’ll get yourself a peek inside YouTube feeling Michelle Phan’s ipsy studios, where she actually is grooming another era of digital video stars while leading her personal mega e-commerce beauty business. They’ll sit back with Tracy Chou, former lead software programmer at Pinterest, whose general public urging in 2013 helped drive Silicon Valley tech giants to reveal the small number of women in their ranks, propelling the “women in technology” discussion to front pages. They’ll tour the head office from the Muse, the latest career site for millennials and meet its intrepid CEO, Kathryn Minshew, who stared down sexism while raising millions of dollars to fund the business she co-founded. And they will journey around the united states to meet a new crop of female investors, including Theresia Gouw and Kathryn Finney, who are infusing women-led technology start-ups with much needed capital.

These women are the rebels proving that a female perspective matters in the age of technology and will rock big returns. At a time when women hold 26% of processing careers in the U.S. and constitute a tiny small percentage of the entrepreneurs launching new tech companies, these stories shine a light on new role versions who verify that in the fast-moving creativity economy, there’s a place for anyone who has a big idea as well as the passion to create it.